A US Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been accused of trying to sell information about the design of American nuclear submarines, the US Department of Justice announced on Sunday. It turned out that the arrested Jonathan Toebbe received payment with crypto money.
Sold information in exchange for crypto money, was arrested
In a criminal complaint detailing the espionage-related charges against Jonathan Toebbe, the government said it had mistakenly sold its information to a person it believed to represent a foreign power for nearly the past year. The name of this country was not mentioned in the court documents. Toebbe, 42, was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday after inserting a memory card in Jefferson County with his wife of 45 years.
The FBI said the plan began in April 2020 when Jonathan Toebbe, a US government employee since 2012, sent a package of Navy documents to a foreign government and said he was interested in selling operations manuals, performance reports and other sensitive information.
Authorities also said that Toebbe had given instructions on how to continue the anonymity and said, “I apologize for this bad translation into your language. Please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. I believe this information will be invaluable to your nation. This is not a scam,” he said.
The FBI sent an agent.
An agent from the FBI posing as a foreign government official then offered to pay thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for the information Toebbe provided. The FBI said in June that the undercover agent sent $10,000 in crypto to Toebbe, calling it a “sign of goodwill and trust.” Authorities say that as part of the operation, the FBI observed that the Toebbes had come to agreed-upon locations multiple times for exchange, hiding the SD card once between two slices of bread on half of a peanut butter sandwich and once in a pack of gum.
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