标题：NCA官员保罗·乔尔斯（Paul Chowles）被控从该机构偷走50 BTC

皇家起诉服务授权默西塞德郡警察向NCA官员保罗·乔尔斯（Paul Chowles）指控11项隐藏，伪装或转换犯罪财产的罪名

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.

根据英国广播公司的一份报告，英国检察官正准备在2017年向国家犯罪局（NCA）官员指控50比特币（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.

皇家检察院已授权默西塞德郡警察向NCA官员保罗·乔尔斯（Paul Chowles）收取11项隐藏，伪装或转换犯罪财产的罪名，这三项是获取，使用或拥有转换犯罪财产和一项盗窃罪的三项罪名。

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的价格在2017年为60,000英镑（77,658美元），目前的价格约为326万英镑（420万美元）。

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

42岁的乔尔斯（Chowles）将于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和警察的额外权力之后，该官员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.

扩大的权力使英国当局能够从仍然匿名或居住在海外的“成熟罪犯”中夺取加密货币。警察还有权抓住与加密调查有关的物理物品，例如闪存驱动器和书面密码。

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，现在允许英国警察摧毁加密资产“如果将其归还到流通不利于公共利益”，而加密犯罪的受害者将有权申请从他们那里偷走的数字资产的返回。

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

首席检察官阿德里安·福斯特（Adrian Foster）去年认为，在犯罪分子利用加密技术的时代，扩大的权力是必要的。

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

“犯罪团伙经常使用加密资产来通过按钮来洗钱国际刑事利润。

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.”

至关重要的是，调查人员和检察官具有与这种不断变化的犯罪性质保持同步的能力和敏捷性，并且这些新措施将极大地帮助我们从非法企业中限制，冻结或消除加密货币资产的能力。”