Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin, is accused of
swindling more than $5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency and other
assets from the estate of a computer-security expert.
Wright, who claimed in 2016 that he created the computer-based currency
under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, allegedly schemed to use phony
contracts and signatures to lay claim to bitcoins mined by colleague
Dave Kleiman, another cryptocurrency adherent, who died in 2013,
according to a lawsuit filed by Kleiman’s brother.
Kleiman’s family contends they own the rights to more than 1 million
Bitcoins and blockchain technologies Kleiman mined and developed during
his lifetime and that the assets’ value exceeds $5 billion, according to
the Feb. 14 filing in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“Craig forged a series of contracts that purported to
transfer Dave’s assets to Craig and/or companies controlled by him,’’
lawyers for Kleiman’s family said in the complaint. “Craig backdated
these contracts and forged Dave’s signature on them.’’
Read more: Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Accused of Swindling $5 Billion of Cryptocurrency - Bloomberg
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