haha, I remember how I laughed in December on the two clowns 
chasing a fairy
chasing a fairyJust means that the thief immediately converted his loot to fiat, using the BTC-E exchange. Had the exchange be a bit more co-operative, then the chasers would have actually caught the thief.
If that were true, my friend, and the thief was soo naive and stupid and he didnt use any of the above mentioned methods, you could just as well catch him now. The transactions are still in the blockchain, and it depends only on how much records BTC-e keeps. If someone dumped such a big amount at once, it would make it bloody obvious.