Tigran Gambaryan, while working as a federal investigator, exposed internal corruption within the U.S. multi-agency team investigating the Silk Road darknet marketplace by revealing that DEA agent Carl Force sold secret law enforcement information to the site’s operator, Ross Ulbricht.

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The criminal complaint against Force and Bridges includes a detailed affidavit written by IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan. In that account, Force is accused of using his Nob persona and possibly others to sell Ulbricht law enforcement information

In his affidavit, Gambaryan writes that he believes Force was in fact French Maid. He points to Force’s knowledge not only of the DHS interview with Mark Karpeles, but also of the versions of PGP both French Maid and Force used and to the financial trail from Ulbricht’s payment to French Maid that eventually ended up in Force’s bitcoin account.