So-Called Satoshi Craig Wright Referred To UK Prosecutors For Alleged Perjury
Craig Wright, the Australian who has long claimed to be Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) British High Court Judge James Mellor for a possible perjury charge following a lawsuit by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), new court documents reveal.
On Tuesday, Mellor ordered the referral to CPS (the chief prosecutorial agency of England and Wales) after ruling that Wright was not the pseudonymous crypto founder in May.
I fully intend to appeal the decision of the court on the matter of the identity issue. I would like to acknowledge and thank all my supporters for their unwavering encouragement and support. In the meantime, I shall continue to work closely with the Teranode team to achieve…
— Dr Craig S Wright (@Dr_CSWright) May 20, 2024
“In advancing his false claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Wright committed ‘a most serious abuse’ of the process of the courts of the U.K., Norway, and the U.S.A.,” Mellor said. “If what happened in this case does not warrant referral, it is difficult to envisage a case that would.”
The winding legal saga began when the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a collection of crypto organizations, sued Wright in 2021 for his longstanding claim that he was the founder of Bitcoin – a line of thinking seemingly in direct contrast with the novel cryptocurrency’s decentralized classification.
Calling Wright’s allegations “brazen and elaborate,” Mellor’s judgment will legally stifle any claims of authorship the businessman has touted over the years.
“The Court found that Dr Wright ‘lied to the Court extensively and repeatedly’ in his evidence and that he attempted to create a false narrative by forging documents ‘on a grand scale” and
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