UK courts still don’t know where Craig Wright is

UK court filings submitted today reveal that Craig Wright has been referred to the country’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to face an investigation into whether he committed perjury during his court battle with The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA). This is despite the court admitting that it still doesn’t know where he is.

In today’s High Court-approved judgment, Mr Justice Mellor said evidence shows that Wright has left his Wimbledon residence and appears to have left the UK.

According to Mellor, the evidence suggests that the Australian computer programmer “has been said to be traveling and was last established to be in the time zone of UTC +7.”

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This timezone covers much of Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Thailand, along with Siberia, China, and Mongolia. 

COPA, which successfully sued Wright and found he was not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, claimed, “Dr. Wright may either be deliberately evading service or at least is peripatetic and is very difficult to locate.” 

The judge deemed this statement ‘fully justified’ and allowed it to serve Wright’s injunctions via email as, despite his traveling reports, “he is plainly contactable through his solicitors and by email.”

Last week, Wright was issued a $1.9 million worldwide freezing order which was implemented partially due to his unknown whereabouts.

Craig Wright can still claim he’s Satoshi

Wright was referred to the CPS today to determine if he should be prosecuted and if ‘a warrant for his arrest should be issued and/or whether his extradition should be sought from wherever he now is.’ 

Two injunctions submitted by COPA against Wright were also approved in today’s filing. Wright cannot threaten or pursue any more legal proceedings on the matter. Wright was also ordered to post a notice on his homepage for six months, and on his X (formerly Twitter) and Slack channels for three months.

However, three injunctions were rejected. One injunction wanted to prevent him from asserting legal rights as Satoshi and another wanted him to delete published statements of his Satoshi claim. 

Another wanted him to stop re-publishing his fraudulent claims to be Satoshi. In discussing this, the judge noted, “If Dr. Wright does really hold that belief, he is deluding himself.”

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