Yes, please:

What reason would someone who's game is already over have to lie to the court, with information which would be easily verifyable? This is the point which makes no sense to me. He has no reason to lie to the court. Nothing to gain from that.

On the other hand, it would be kind of easy to tell Pirate to just send the funds to another address, because, you know, "I've somehow lost control over the original address". Not saying that this is what happened, it's not even speculation. But it's for sure a possibility.