Re: [ANN] Bitcoinica Consultancy abandons customers. Bitcoinica to enter Liquidation
Sure, that is the main reason why you (and others) try to prevent ZT to return the funds. Very logically 
If Zhou was not the theif, then the funds are not his to return. He is not legally entitled to handle or transfer stolen goods and nor it seems is Murck. Don't try to bait me on logic. It's clear that you cannot understand the logic that for something to be legally legitimate it must have legal authority.Logic and law do not mix well, but most of the time laws do make sense.
For example you do not need legal authority to be acting legally, you just need to act within the scope of the law.
For Patrick Murck, officially representing the owners of Bitcoinica LP, receiving goods that were stolen from Bitcoinica LP sounds actually fine, and is probably the best thing that could happen at that point.
The fact is returning funds to customers is not going to be made easy at all by the fact that part of the funds is missing, and the fact that active account data was apparently deleted by the hacker. The claim process is made so people can fill claims, but those claims then need to be reviewed, and processed. The process also usually includes selling any company property to attempt to reduce the missing part... this will take some time.