One thing also: In the chat, Mark K. says "things could not be better" ...I thought that was a bit disconnected, however, in light of the above, it seems maybe he is a captured piece, and therefore
what this means is that Gox was captured and then run by the you-know-whos, as they do. So, they puppeted him. In these terms, his statement that "everything could not be better" would not seem so incongruos with the facts: dude you're fucked, how the hell could things not be better? So he is 98% a captured actor, imo.
I took his statement as sarcasm like "Yeah things are GREAT".
This is an interesting theory. Maybe Mark was taking recreation trips to Thailand, and got hemmed up by some super secret government guys and it's this whole giant conspiracy...
...or maybe he's just an incompetent fuckin' moron, or a thief.
Occam's Razor and all that.