Quote from: franky1 on March 10, 2014, 03:15:58 PM

hope the victims grouping together for a legal battle atleast show proof that the funds were still under karpales control in March. i totally facepalm the fact that governments beleive that karpales is innocent and deserves protection.

hopefully the guy at the SEC that got pirate arrested can also help, as he seems to know enough about bitcoin to see the evidence for what it is.

no wonder why people hate governments. arresting people for not paying a parking ticket. but letting a multimillion dollar extortionist get protection from the government

Agreed. ridiculous.

This filing is likely because they know they will be denied "civil rehabilitation."

I wonder if the Japanese authorities know he has a history of financial crimes when he was younger.

http://johnbercow.tumblr.com/post/78352765925/mt-gox-guy-mark-karpeles-went-to-jail-before-for

He also scammed a French out of $30,000, which he used to purchase MtGox.
(the scammee took years to track him down and sue him in Japanese Court, which he won...)

" A 5,000 ($6,870 USD) down payment is placed. Mr. Karpelès returns several months later with bad news. His hired graphics artist failed to complete a subcontract on time, so the first stage of the three-step development process was stall...."

"That was a complete lie. According to court records, Mr. Karpelès could never provide any evidence that there was a subcontractor. By all appearances he had simply taken Mr. Dubois' money, done no work, and then invented a fantasy to cover himself."

http://www.dailytech.com/Bitcoin+King+Mt+Gox+CEO+Mark+Karpels+History+of+Arrests+Firings/article34442.htm
http://www.dailytech.com/Bitcoin+King+Pt+II+Mt+Goxs+Dictator+Karpels+Proves+Tragically+Flawed/article34452.htm