SkyNews: ‘Computer scientist who falsely claimed he was Bitcoin creator ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ referred to CPS’
“An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to have invented Bitcoin has been referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury.
A judge at London’s High Court found Dr Craig Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” to support his claim that he was “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonym attributed to the person widely credited with creating the cryptocurrency.
Dr Wright was sued by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit group that includes cryptocurrency firms, to stop him suing Bitcoin developers.
Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Dr Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming”, after a five-week civil trial during which the group claimed he committed “forgery on an industrial scale” to support a “brazen lie”.
In a written ruling today, the judge said he was referring the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider prosecution over potential perjury and forgery.”