標題：NCA官員保羅·喬爾斯（Paul Chowles）被控從該機構偷走50 BTC

皇家起訴服務授權默西塞德郡警察向NCA官員保羅·喬爾斯（Paul Chowles）指控11項隱藏，偽裝或轉換犯罪財產的罪名

British prosecutors are preparing to charge a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer with stealing 50 Bitcoin (BTC) in 2017, according to a report by the BBC.

根據英國廣播公司的一份報告，英國檢察官正準備在2017年向國家犯罪局（NCA）官員指控50比特幣（BTC）。

The Crown Prosecution Services has authorized Merseyside Police to charge NCA officer Paul Chowles with 11 counts of concealing, disguising, or converting criminal property, three counts of acquiring, using or possessing converting criminal property and a single count of theft.

皇家檢察院已授權默西塞德郡警察向NCA官員保羅·喬爾斯（Paul Chowles）收取11項隱藏，偽裝或轉換犯罪財產的罪名，這三項是獲取，使用或擁有轉換犯罪財產和一項盜竊罪的三項罪名。

The 50 BTC was priced at £60,000 ($77,658) back in 2017 and is worth around £3.26 million ($4.2 million) at the current rates.

50 BTC的價格在2017年為60,000英鎊（77,658美元），目前的價格約為326萬英鎊（420萬美元）。

Chowles, 42, is set to appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on April 25th.

42歲的喬爾斯（Chowles）將於4月25日在利物浦治安法院出庭。

The officer’s charges come less than a year after new legislation granted additional crypto-related powers to the NCA and police.

在新立法授予NCA和警察的額外權力之後，該官員的指控不到一年不到一年。

The expanded powers enable UK authorities to seize crypto from “sophisticated criminals” who remain anonymous or are based overseas. The police are also empowered to seize physical items related to crypto investigations, like flash drives and written passwords.

擴大的權力使英國當局能夠從仍然匿名或居住在海外的“成熟罪犯”中奪取加密貨幣。警察還有權抓住與加密調查有關的物理物品，例如閃存驅動器和書面密碼。

Additionally, UK police are now allowed to destroy a crypto asset “if returning it to circulation is not conducive to the public good,” and victims of crypto crime will be empowered to apply for the return of digital assets stolen from them.

此外，現在允許英國警察摧毀加密資產“如果將其歸還到流通不利於公共利益”，而加密犯罪的受害者將有權申請從他們那裡偷走的數字資產的返回。

Chief Crown Prosecutor Adrian Foster argued last year that the expanded powers were necessary in an era when criminals are leveraging crypto technology.

首席檢察官阿德里安·福斯特（Adrian Foster）去年認為，在犯罪分子利用加密技術的時代，擴大的權力是必要的。

“Crypto assets are often used by criminal gangs to launder their criminal profits internationally at the touch of a button.

“犯罪團伙經常使用加密資產來通過按鈕來洗錢國際刑事利潤。

It is vital that investigators and prosecutors have the capability and agility to keep pace with this changing nature of crime, [and] these new measures will greatly assist our ability to restrain, freeze, or eliminate crypto assets from illegal enterprise.”

至關重要的是，調查人員和檢察官具有與這種不斷變化的犯罪性質保持同步的能力和敏捷性，並且這些新措施將極大地幫助我們從非法企業中限制，凍結或消除加密貨幣資產的能力。”