Foreign: An FBI counterintelligence inspector took about $925,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a foreign intelligence target he was investigating and moved it into his own wallet, according to a criminal complaint filed in Virginia last week.
According to VN Express on August 6, 2026, Patrick Steven Yaroch was arrested on July 31 at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, and charged the same day in a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia with transporting stolen goods, securities and money and receiving stolen goods, securities and money, according to the Washington Examiner. The FBI also fired him that day.
The statement did not name the countries whose accounts were removed, describing it as a counter-offensive. Two people familiar with the matter told NBC News that it was Russia.
The website Bitcoin.com reported that the countries and identities of the two targets remain blacked out in court records.
Editor: Nay Tola
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