Quote from: vladimir on February 24, 2011, 12:56:06 PM

45k$ is a significant amount of money. I am wondering why is it still being discussed here at all. This is a matter for police and/or civil litigation.

I personally do not like how operator of mtgox has appointed himself as investigator, judge and executioner, as well as treasury for fines/confiscated property. How he simply ignores presumption of innocence, dishes out "guilty" verdicts and keeps the money.

However, there is another possibility here. Mtgox is paying homage to money laundering regulations which probably require them to freeze and report suspicious accounts and they cannot tell about it "the client". Mtgox public statements do not quite fit this version, though.

Mtgox is being rather economical with words here.

Until this matter clears up, for me personally, mtgox is a no go zone.

Please do correct me if I am wrong.

Agree. Mtgox did worse than paypal. While paypal's funds freezing scams usually begin with reversed credit card transactions that put paypal at a loss that they need to recover, in this case here, mtgox has not had any liberty reserve or coins pulled away from itself, but continues with a funds freeze anyway. Especially foolish since this community is comprised of many people that absolutely despise paypal's model and instead value economic privacy and freedom.