The US Secret Service was able to lead to the prosecutor two agents found guilty of stealing $820 in Bitcoins from the Silk Road drug market.
Shaun W. Bridges admitted his guilt to the retention of the amount.
"Ο κύριος Shaun W. Bridges ανέφερε ότι λυπάται πραγματικά για αυτό που συνέβη" δήλωσε ο δικηγόρος του Bridges, Steve Hale Levin στο Bloomberg.
"Η απόφασή του να δηλώσει ένοχος αντανακλά την πλήρη αποδοχή της πράξης του και αποτελεί ένα ακόμη βήμα για την αποκατάσταση του" (sic).
Shaun W. Bridges was part of a task force hunting former Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht, and was one of the two who stole Bitcoins from the site.
In particular, he used to use the account of former administrator Curtis Green to intercept the accounts of drug dealers, as a result of which UIbricht began to search for a murderer on payment, because he had suspected Green of the thefts.
The charge for the death contract has not yet been judged by the court.
The second US intelligence agent Carl Force is accused of violating Silk Road manager Ross Ulbricht to win the amount of 235.000 dollars he wanted on a bill in Panama. In return he would provide him with information about police actions.
Force asked Ross Ulbricht for (and allegedly received) 925 Bitcoins, (worth $90.000) to issue him a fake ID and give him information about the research.
The agent did not want to deliver the PGP key he used for his talks, Silk Road (used to encrypt his talks with Ulbricht), something that was quite suspicious, and he put the Feds into thoughts.
