A supervising U.S. FBI agent who labored in intelligence on the nationwide headquarters has been arrested and accused in a federal court docket submitting of stealing greater than $1 million in cryptocurrency.
The high-level particular agent, recognized as Patrick Steven Yarmoch, allegedly turned himself in to company colleagues, reporting that he dug crypto keys from FBI programs to make as many as a dozen transfers to himself from accounts tied to overseas people he’d investigated, in accordance with an August 1 account filed with the U.S. District Court docket for the Jap District of Virginia.
Yarmoch — who held a “prime secret” safety clearance — had labored in counterintelligence, particularly with an investigative unit that centered on an unnamed “adversary nation,” in accordance with the court docket submitting, which famous he was suspended for a few days earlier than being fired and arrested on July 31.
The resident of Ashburn, Virginia, had labored as a supervisory particular agent at FBI headquarters in Washington, particularly in its counterintelligence and espionage division. He’d beforehand labored for years out of Boston, the place he’d been in a national-security unit investigating the adversary nation referenced within the court docket submitting.
