obviously.. karpeles is a terrorist who must be waterboarded to reveal his secret key to the 550,000 missing bitcoins. they cannot afford to lose 5% of all bitcoins ever be made just cuz one fat turd decided to pull a scheme. does that makes sense ?? karpeles is causing bitcoins to be unable to become the worlds new reserve currency. they can't kill him. he is holding the bitcoins hostage. he didn't dump the coins as planned.
I'm sure they could get him to talk if they want to. The Japanese prisons aren't as soft as the western ones. Plus he'll be locked up with members of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. If he doesn't tell the authorities where he hid the Bitcoins the Yakuza will soon get him to talk. He'll have a nightmare if he already dumped them because nobody will believe him.