FBI agent Patrick Yaroch faces charges for stealing $1 million in crypto from adversary wallets he investigated. A search found $925,426 in Suilend and a ChatGPT query about Portugal.
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A supervisory special agent in the FBI’s counterintelligence division has been arrested for stealing roughly $1 million in cryptocurrency from wallets tied to a foreign adversary he was assigned to investigate. Patrick Steven Yaroch was fired July 31 and arrested the same day, according to an affidavit filed August 1 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Yaroch faces charges of interstate transportation of stolen goods and receipt of stolen goods. He held a Top Secret clearance with sensitive compartmented information access since May 2017. He worked at FBI headquarters from February 2025 while also detailed to another intelligence agency, and spent 2017 to 2025 in the Boston field office on a national security squad focused on the adversary nation. Two sources told NBC News that nation was Russia.
Yaroch told colleagues he searched FBI holdings for the accounts, memorized the seed phrases, created a personal wallet, and moved funds roughly 10 to 12 times beginning in late 2024 or early 2025.
A search of Yaroch’s house revealed a Kraken account with about $188,570 and about $933,757 in Suilend, the Sui lending protocol, accessed through a Slush wallet he said he chose because he liked the logo. He signed a consent form allowing agents to move $925,426 into government wallets. Investigators also seized a Trezor, three passports including a diplomatic one, a handwritten seed phrase, a June 15 power of attorney for two Portuguese lawyers, and TAP Air Portugal bookings for September 3. His ChatGPT history included a June 4 query about leaving the US for EU residency with $1 million; the model recommended Portugal.
The affidavit states Yaroch never interacted with anyone connected to the accounts and never spent the money. US Magistrate Judge Lindsey R. Vaala ordered Yaroch temporarily detained Monday, with a hearing set for Tuesday.
The case is the second insider breach this year involving crypto the US government controlled or tracked. A $46 million theft from US Marshals Service wallets led to an arrest in March.
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