Ex-NCA officer ordered to repay £1.81 million for stolen Bitcoin
Former NCA officer Paul Chowles must repay £1,810,678.93 after a UK court concluded that sum represents the current value of Bitcoin he stole in 2017 from Thomas White's seized retirement wallet. Chowles removed roughly 50 of 97 Bitcoin, routed them through the Bitcoin Fog mixer, and investigators later traced 30 coins to him; he was jailed for five and a half years in July 2025 and dismissed from the NCA. A confiscation order has been made and recovered funds will go toward White's outstanding confiscation total, a case that echoes earlier Silk Road agent misconduct and sits alongside a High Court fight over 61,000 seized Bitcoin.
Chowles must repay £1,810,678.93 for stolen Bitcoin.
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Police and the FBI seized Bitcoin from Thomas White in a joint operation. Chowles stole…
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