Craig has now completed his testimony, they are now questioning their own guy on alleged Emails signed with Daves PGP keys ( After he died ) so certain forgeries… my first comment is that today was a solid win for Iras side. Probably their first. The plaintiffs should be way ahead now before the defence puts its case. I feel they are indeed ahead after today, but not where they should be.
Apart from Craig getting pulled up by the Judge for use of bad language, not much to add. Loads of accusations, but nothing that really stuck.
The Email / PGP signing is beyond doubt the biggest piece of evidence the plaintiffs have. They cant prove Craig forged them, but they look terrible on the surface. Essentially Dave saying to Craig, you have all the Bitcoin, I don't need / want it.
The other alleged forgeries related to the ATO I would say didn't stick, as he won that case, and the investigators were fired on corruption charges. They were also quite capable of making forgeries. It was also in their interest to do so.
The ones between Dave / Craig are something else entirely. First It would be hard to argue that the Emails were not forged. When the Defence comes in I expect them to argue it was Ira that did it ( for a start how would Craig have Daves PGP Keys ? ). Iras motive by doing that would be to imply there was some Bitcoin, plus that Dave had some ownership… Very messy as I doubt it can be proved either way.
Anyway Plaintiffs should be complete tomorrow, and the defence starts.
This is where it gets interesting.
