Even Craig Wright or Dave Kleiman seem a lot more believable to me than Mark for a Satoshi role. The amount is virtually the same: 648,000 BTC declared missing from MtGox vs. 650,000 BTC withdrawn from the Seychelles trust by Craig.
As mentioned in the LRB article
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair, Craig was planning to use these funds to pay for his "research and development stuff." It seems natural that an exchange like MtGox would be chosen to trade them all for fiat. Craig claims to have lost a "large wallet" when the exchange went down.
If you want to convert BTC 650k into fiat then it makes no sense to dump everything onto one exchange, as none of the exchanges has/had the liquidity to handle such a volume...