Odaily Planet Daily News: A former British National Crime Agency (NCA) officer was sentenced to prison for stealing 50 bitcoins in the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. Silk Road 2.0 is a follow-up to the original Silk Road. It was launched a month after the FBI shut down the original Silk Road and arrested its founder Ross Ulbricht in October 2013, and was shut down by the FBI after a year of operation. Paul Chowles, an NCA action officer who was involved in the investigation, was responsible for extracting and analyzing the device data of the co-founder of Silk Road 2.0 during the law enforcement operation. At that time, 50 of the 97 bitcoins seized were transferred in May 2017. These bitcoins were then processed through the cryptocurrency mixing service Bitcoin Fog, apparently to cover up their source. Paul Chowles has now pleaded guilty to charges of theft, transfer of criminal property and concealment of criminal property and has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. The British Crown Prosecution Service calculated that he illegally gained about 613,150 pounds (821,345 US dollars).