The drama surrounding the Silk Road case continues, after one other US federal agent has admitted to laundering a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} value of Bitcoin through the investigation.
Former secret service agent Shaun Bridges has pleaded responsible to Bitcoin theft, admitting to sending over $800,000 value of the digital foreign money to his private account whereas he was investigating the dark internet drug trafficking site.
Silk Road was shut down within the autumn of 2013, having netted Bitcoin gross sales of over $200m of medicine and different unlawful objects throughout its two years of operations. The site’s founder, Ross Ulbricht, who glided by the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”, was sentenced to life imprisonment throughout a highly-publicised case.
But the investigation itself led to additional illicit makes use of of Bitcoin.
Bridges is the second US federal agent to have fallen foul of Bitcoin theft temptation through the investigation, after former agent Carl Force pleaded responsible to this simply two months in the past.
Assistant lawyer General Caldwell mentioned in a press release that this confirmed the significance of holding wrongdoers accountable “no matter who they are”:
There is a vibrant line between imposing the regulation and breaking it. Law enforcement officers who cross that line not solely hurt their quick victims but additionally betray the general public belief.