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Ex-officer must repay £1.8m for stolen Bitcoin
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Paul Chowles, a former National Crime Agency detective from Bristol, has been ordered to repay £1.8 million in Bitcoin he stole from a dark web drug dealer. Chowles, 44, was jailed for five-and-a-half years for taking the cryptocurrency from Thomas White, who operated the infamous Silk Road under the alias 'Dread Pirate Roberts'.
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