- The UK Excessive Court docket has granted Peter McCormack’s software for a world asset freezing order in opposition to Craig Wright.
- McCormack needs to get well greater than £1.5 million ($1.9 million) in authorized charges associated to Wright’s defamation case in opposition to the podcaster.
The UK Excessive Court docket has issued an order freezing the property of Craig Wright, an Australian laptop scientist who sued entrepreneur and podcast host Peter McCormack in 2019.
Within the case, the court docket granted McCormack’s movement to get well WFO in opposition to Wright, the decision is to cost McCormack greater than £1.5 million ($1.9 million) in authorized charges.
That is said in authorized paperwork filed on Friday, July 5.
Wright sued McCormack for defamation and misplaced
In 2019, Wright filed a defamation swimsuit in opposition to McCormack, accusing the podcaster of defamation as a result of Wright was not the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wright misplaced that case in August 2022, and the enchantment was dismissed on July 26, 2023. The UK Supreme Court docket additionally rejected Wright’s enchantment in December 2023.
In his opinion, Decide Mellar additionally famous the developments surrounding the COPA litigation. In Might 2024, a choose dominated that Craig Wright was neither Satoshi Nakamoto nor the creator of Bitcoin. The ruling additionally clarified that Craig was not the creator of the Bitcoin White Paper that launched the world’s largest digital asset.
Peter McCormack shared the most recent verdict in opposition to Wright within the case, noting {that a} worldwide freezing order “within the sum of £1.548m” was to assist cowl his authorized prices.
