Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was shut down, criminal charges continue. This time it seems that the accused are not the online drug dealers but two agents involved in the investigation. Her special agent DEA, Carl Force and her specialist agent Secret Service (Secret Service) Shaun Bridges are arrested and accused of online scams and money laundering.
Bridges is accused of depositing $ 800.000 in Silk Road bitcoins in a personal Mt. Gox. But Shaun Bridges' allegations "pale in comparison to the charges against her agent DEA", Who is accused of theft of state assets and conflict of interest in the context of the Silk Road investigation.
Carl Force allegedly acquired hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin from Silk Road payments as part of his secret research and transferred them to a personal account instead of seizing them by naming state assets. He was also accused of working secretly for the Bitcoin CoinMKT exchange company, and using his powers from DEA he seized funds from the exchange, and later, using a subpoena to the payment company, Venmo tried to unlock blocked caps, as Wired says.
But the most surprising of all the charges against Force is that he acted as a paid informant for Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht, allegedly selling information about the investigation into Ulbricht under two different aliases. Meanwhile, using a third alias, Force is also accused of trying to blackmail Ulbricht by using data which the authorities had in their hands.
Force, a 46-year-old, worked secretly as a Silk Road member on the Baltimore Task Force since 2012, communicating directly with Ulbricht, who allegedly used the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. With this role, Force also "played" him as "Nob", a virtual criminal who helped organize the murder of Curtis Clark Green for Ulbricht. This assassination never happened, but it is important to know that it was organized by the Baltimore task force. The assassination attempt was allegedly paid for by Ulbricht to prevent Green, a potential witness, from speaking. The murder is the first in a series of six murders that prosecutors accuse of Ulbricht.
The lawsuit against Force and Bridges includes a detailed written affidavit from his agent IRS, Tigran Gambaryan.
