You may already know a UK legal claim has been made by Craig S. Wright who we learn has made claim to legal ownership of this wallet. This despite his story timeline being irrelevant to the wallets creation.

This is BITCOIN, and we may simply have been SCAMMED, as we are reminded by everyone we discuss our project with.

However our documentation and investigations make us believe:

1. This wallet was prepared for a private transaction by Steven Chan - Director of Oracle, working in Reading Berks whom retired in 2019 and declines to respond, though in fairness to him we haven't been able to obtain his current telephone number as it may be now in Canada/ US North West.

2. The payment for this wallet was made via BACS payment directly to Mr Chan's UK personal bank account on the 15th May 2010 following a transaction discussed and agreed via Skype on the 13th May 2010.

3. Mr Chan prepared and encrypted the wallet file containing what is believed to be the very private keys you claim to have, he delivered this file to the legal owner via Skype on the 24th May 2010 along with a 63 byte secret string. The encoded file is dated 24th May 2010.

4. Other personal details were also captured and shared at the time, including the agreed decryption method.

5. The wallet was archived after a "blue screen of death crash in 2011" all contact numbers lost,  its owner though still very much alive today!.

6. Technically the the private keys are not lost, simply are securely encrypted inside an encoded file 18812 bytes in size.

7. The only loss currently is the communication or "construct" to derive the key from the data shared to decode the file.

Professional witnesses to these events and transaction exist. "Bitcoin Community Professionals" including Peter Todd and others have already inspected the encrypted wallet and are considering how and if to provide recovery assistance.

If indeed you have access to the coins as you state, we understand the weight of your dilemma!, just because you found cash on the street... does this make it yours?. I am sure your retained lawyers will explain the Computer Misuse Act (I assume you are UK based) and find a way to bend the law to suit their pay-grade but the answer is "NO!". The reward of successful return would be a legit ask, likely significantly more than you may spend attempting to prove your ownership without the documents we hold.

Should you turn to the dark side... then you will get hunted and found, Karma will come for you... Perhaps a private chat would be best to share mutual interests.

The best path forward to validate STEVEN CHAN, he seems in our opinion the worlds most honest guy! if you consider he has been in your position for the past 12 years.

OR you could SIMPLY DELETE THEM..! like you never found them.

Rgds

M