Ex-NCA Officer Ordered to Repay $2.4M for Stealing Seized Bitcoin
- —Chowles was jailed for five and a half years in July 2025
- —The 50 stolen BTC were worth about $79,250 in 2017
- —Investigators recovered 30 of the 50 stolen bitcoin
- —The CPS has recovered over $700 million via confiscation orders in five years
Why it matters: The case shows how bitcoin's price appreciation inflates confiscation and compensation sums tied to older crypto crimes.
Source: Bitcoin.com