The self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, Australian Craig Wright, has been handed over to British prosecutors for alleged perjury.
On Tuesday (July 16), UK High Court Judge James Mellor decided to refer the case in which Wright claims to be the inventor of bitcoin to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the organization that prosecutes cases investigated by police in England and Wales.
The CPS will now consider whether Wright should be prosecuted for what Mellor called “perjury and falsification of documents on a large scale” and decide whether an arrest warrant and possible extradition is needed.
What exactly is the self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin accused of?
The self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin has remained largely silent since a High Court ruling held that he lied “extensively and repeatedly” in his evidence trying to prove that he is Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright tried in the London trial to prove that he was the original inventor of Bitcoin and that he owns intellectual property rights, including the copyright to the Bitcoin white paper and the first versions of the Bitcoin software.
The Bitcoin protocol is a decentralized, open-source network, and no single entity can gain control over it, notes CNBC.
Mellor ruled that Wright had attempted to create a false narrative by falsifying documents “on a large scale”, presenting them as evidence in court.
The content of Wright’s website has been deleted
He added that by advancing his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto through legal action in the UK, as well as Norway and the US, Wright had committed “a very serious abuse” of the legal process.
A legal notice was posted on Wright’s official website, whose content was deleted shortly after Mellor’s ruling, saying: “Dr. Craig Steven Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto”.
This notice, which reiterates the ruling that Wright was not the inventor of Bitcoin, states that Wright has been ordered not to initiate any legal action based on his false claims and not to threaten such action.
Source: www.go4it.ro
