The court did not take into account the lawsuit filed by the former owner of the cryptocurrency, which accidentally fell into a landfill in Newport, England. This was reported by BBC News.
According to the TV channel, in 2013, the girlfriend of 39-year-old IT specialist James Howells accidentally threw away a disk containing eight thousand bitcoins, the value of which is currently estimated at 76 billion rubles. To find lost digital assets, you need to sort through 100 thousand tons of waste from a landfill in Newport.
In this context, Howells demanded through the court that the Newport authorities compensate him for the damage and pay him 495 million pounds (62 billion rubles) at the end of 2024. Considering the man’s appeal, the judge called such requests unreasonable and rejected the claim, depriving him of his last hope for the return of the lost cryptocurrency. Howells stated that the claim was rejected at the first hearing and he was not given the chance to make a statement or seek any form of justice.
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