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> it would be some variant of theft.

As long as the person who knows the key remains within the jurisdiction of the "owner".




There are extraditions treaties. He can claim that someone else hacked his account, but I guess the judge will not believe this.


60 millions can buy a lot of friends in jurisdictions without extradition treaties. Maybe not the friends one wants to have but he didn't earn those money in a legal way, so he probably won't bother. Even if he has to give away most of them he'll still be well off.


Sometimes it's not so easy, if you have a giant 60 millions tag over your head some people will ask for more.

Perhaps he could have handled it better but take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_issues


>There are extraditions treaties.

The extradition treaty matrix is - luckily - rather sparse.

For 60 mils, I think he has ample incentive to find an empty slot in the column of his country.




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