An FBI counterintelligence agent was arrested on Friday after allegedly looting “adversarial cryptocurrency accounts” and accumulating around $1 million worth of digital assets.
An affidavit filed by a different FBI agent on Saturday alleges that Patrick Yaroch, a supervisory special agent who works at the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington DC, self-reported last week in a fit of shame, saying what he did was “eating him up inside” and that he wanted to “get it off his chest.”
Yaroch worked at the FBI Boston Division from 2017-2025 on a national security investigative squad focused on an unnamed adversarial nation-state. Starting in February 2025, he worked in the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division in DC, and as “a detailee within the US intelligence community,” per the affidavit.
While in Boston, Yaroch allegedly investigated an individual associated with the adversarial nation state.
Amid his self-reporting session last week, Yaroch allegedly said he became frustrated when he could not do more to disrupt this individual’s use of crypto, so he went into FBI systems and found the passkeys needed to transfer money from multiple adversarial wallets to himself.
He said he created a personal crypto wallet with Kraken and conducted 10-12 transfers, amassing a value of approximately $1 million, though he claims the stolen assets were intermingled with his personal funds, so the affidavit doesn’t clarify how much specifically was taken from the adversarial wallets.
Yaroch then allegedly transferred approximately $1.02 million from Kraken to Slush, a cross-platform wallet app for Sui (SUI). He then used Slush to place the crypto on a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called Suilend, stating that “he chose this service simply because he liked that the logo was a water droplet.”
The affidavit indicates FBI agents transferred funds from the Kraken and Slush accounts, now worth a total of $925,426.07, to US government-controlled wallets. Approximately $165,582.49 remained in Yaroch’s Kraken account that couldn’t be transferred to a government-controlled wallet because it was in USD.
The agents also seized property from Yaroch’s home, including his phone, which allegedly revealed multiple ChatGPT searches related to moving to Europe and operating a vineyard.
Per the affidavit,
“At 8:35 AM on June 4, 2026, Yaroch asked ChatGPT, ‘If you had a bucket of money (around $1 million) and you wanted to leave the USA and become a resident or citizen of an EU country, what would you do?’ ChatGPT responded, ‘Given everything you’ve told me – [name of Yaroch’s child], your wife, the desire for a 2-5 hectare estate, interest in age-worthy red wine, and the goal of actually living there rather than just owning a property- I would not start by chasing citizenship…What I would do with $1 million Option 1: Portugal (my top choice for your specific situation).”
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