Almost 18 months after the closure of the online drug market Silk Road, οι ποινικές διώξεις συνεχίζονται. Αυτή τη φορά φαίνεται πως κατηγορούμενοι δεν είναι οι διαδικτυακοί έμποροι ναρκωτικών αλλά 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.
Ο Carl Force φέρεται να απέκτησε εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες σε Bitcoin από πληρωμές του Silk Road, ως μέρος της μυστικής έρευνας του και τα μετέφερε σε έναν προσωπικό λογαριασμό αντί να τα κατασχέσει ονομάζοντας τα κρατικά περιουσιακά στοιχεία. Έχει κατηγορηθεί επίσης ότι εργαζόταν κρυφά για την company Bitcoin exchange CoinMKT, and using DEA powers to seize the exchange's funds, later using a subpoena on payment company Venmo to try to unlock frozen funds, Wired reports.
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.
