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TRX Ex-NCA Officer Ordered to Repay $2.4M for Stolen Bitcoin
Decrypt reports that former NCA officer Paul Chowles must repay $2.4 million for 50 BTC he took from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017, with prosecutors valuing the theft at over 30 times its original worth.
Why “Unverified”
- Reported by Decrypt alone, with no second source or primary confirmation yet
1 independent source groups across 1 posts · evidence score 56/100. How labels work
Market around the story
| Asset | Price at first report | 6h before | 1h before | 1h after | 6h after | 1h move vs normal | 24h volume vs median |
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| BTC | Measured six hours after the first report. | ||||||
Returns are measured from the moment the story first appeared. “vs normal” compares the move with the asset's typical hourly move over the previous 30 days.
What the sources claim
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Former NCA officer Paul Chowles must repay $2.4 million for Bitcoin he stole when it was worth $77,000. BTC
“Ex-NCA Officer Must Repay $2.4M for Bitcoin He Stole When It Was Worth $77K”
Decrypt -
Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017. BTC
“Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017.”
Decrypt -
Prosecutors have valued the theft at more than 30 times its original value. BTC
“Prosecutors have now valued the theft at more than 30 times that.”
Decrypt
Sources
Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-09-30 15:20 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.