One of the DEA agents is accused of extorting cryptocurrency from the Silk Road’s operator, while second agent is also charged with money laundering and wire fraud. It turned out that the undercover DEA agent created more than one alias during investigation: in his capacity as a DEA agent, he used the alias “Nob”, but besides that, Carl Force also created “French Maid” and “Death from Above” aliases. The latter were not sanctioned by the agency and were used by the agent to extort money from Ulbricht. Silk Road’s operator filed a complaint against the agents in a US district court.

Ross Ulbricht was arrested back in 2013 after a 2-year investigation. A month ago he was found guilty on multiple charges including money laundering and conspiracy to traffic drugs. A few days ago, Ross filed a complaint against Carl Force, describing how he was assigned to the FBI investigation. Ulbricht claims that Force stole and converted for personal use thousands of Bitcoins that had been sent to him in his official capacity. According to the complaint, the agent deposited money into his own personal accounts instead of turning them over to the government.

Shaun Bridges is another secret service agent charged in relation to this fraud. While Carl Force was involved in communication with Dread Pirate Roberts, Shaun Bridges was a computer forensics expert. Apparently, both agents had expertise in cryptocurrency, and Force used his position as a federal agent to illegally run background checks for the benefit of a Bitcoin exchange company CoinMKT, which has over $100,000 of his private investments.

For some reason, Carl Force made little attempt to hide his activities: the FBI revealed that his personal checking account showed incoming deposits of more than $750,000 over one year. In addition, the two agents set up Bitcoin investment properties: Quantum Investments and Engedi LLC, perhaps with the aim to hold and reinvest the stolen money.

Finally, in communication with the Silk Road operator, known under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”, Carl Force also created a fictional insider source in the government agency, whom he was allegedly feeding insider information and extorted money from Ulbricht for that. So, now the DEA agents are charged with money laundering, wire fraud, theft of government property and conflict of interest.