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.
How do we know the 550K BTC even _exist_? Is it not possible that Karp sold them on Gox, pocketing the proceeds, and the buyers merely withdrew them from the exchange? After all, he had full custody of all BTC and all fiat on Gox. Bitcoins illegitimately sold thusly could have remained in each depositor's Gox accounts on paper, as if Gox still had custody of them, while in actuality having been long gone.