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LONDON: A British court on Tuesday (Mar 18) found two men guilty over the theft of a solid gold toilet from an English country house. The fully functioning 18-carat convenience was stolen five years ago in a raid on an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace near Oxford. The artwork - dubbed America - was one of the star attractions of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at the 18th-century stately home, the birthplace of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court found Michael Jones, 39, guilty of...

United Kingdom prosecutors allege an officer working for the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) stole 50 Bitcoin (BTC) back in 2017. The Crown Prosecution Services authorized Merseyside Police to charge NCA officer Paul Chowles with 11 counts of concealing, disguising, or converting criminal property, three counts of acquiring, using or possessing converting criminal property and a single count of theft. The 50 BTC was priced at £60,000 ($77,658) back in 2017 and is worth £3.26 million ($4.2 million) at time of writing. Chowles, 42, is set to appear at Liverpool...