Update Jan 13. 2018

The thief has been holding the coins and he has not forged since he stopped forging last week.  So at least your fees are not going to this criminal for the past seven days.  Apparently he is bullish on his ill gotten gains because he is holding.  No reply from minergate when I confronted them multiple times about my coins magically being moved from my wallet to another address after they installed multiple viruses on my computer.  But apparently according to the Ardor thread it's my fault that my coins were stolen because my security was not tight enough even though I was actually using the coin (I.E. putting my passphrase into my wallet) and not just hoarding the coin waiting for some more suckers to come fight over the scraps.  More updates to follow.