siehe nachstehend Artikel (englisch)

http://www.pr-inside.com/digital-currency-...ted-r107629.htm

kannst diesen mit Google übersetzen

http://translate.google.com/translate_t

ebenfalls nachstehender Artikel

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/April/07_crm_301.html

na mal schaun was daraus wird

Wenn dann bleib bei der wahrheit=)

Es wird lediglich wiedermal ermittelt.

Macht euch net heiss, wenn was wäre, ändern könnten wirs eh nich...von daher...

Gibt es schon was neues zu E-Gold?

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E-gold Responds to DoJ Indictments
(from ITWeek.co.uk)

The founder and chairman of e-gold has issued a scathing response to recent allegations by the US Department of Justice (DoJ), insisting that e-gold has been made a " scapegoat".

Dr Douglas Jackson said that the charges of money laundering and enabling criminal transactions are the result of a political vendetta.

In an open letter posted on the company's website, Dr Jackson accused the DoJ of "subordinating actual crime fighting to a policy agenda".

E-gold was indicted late last week on charges of money laundering, conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

"This case has nothing to do with criminal activity," the e-gold statement read. "It is about a DoJ that is out of control, cognisant of having made a horrible mistake but determined at all costs to preserve its turf."

Dr Jackson said that all of the charges are false and that the company has been a leader in the fight against child pornography. Using e-gold to launder money is nearly impossible, he stated.

"E-gold, as a matter of incontrovertible fact, is the most effective of all online payment systems in detecting and interdicting abuse of its system for child pornography related payments," said Dr Jackson.

He also pointed out that the company was a founding member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Financial Coalition to Eliminate Child Pornography.

Dr Jackson added that, because the company deals strictly in precious metals and does not handle any currency, it would be impossible for e-gold to launder money.

"As far as the possibility of a criminal successfully obfuscating a money trail, e-gold is a closed system. The only way to obtain e-gold is by receiving a transfer from someone who already has some," he said.

A DoJ spokesperson told vnunet.com: "It is an interesting defence for them to raise at trial," declining to give any further comment on the statement.

Dr Jackson claimed that the charges have their roots in a feud between e-gold and the US Secret Service, which handles the investigation and enforcement of counterfeiting and financial fraud in the US.

The Secret Service had been organising a campaign against e-gold in an effort to scapegoat the company since 2001, according to Dr Jackson.

"During The Inquisition, accusations of witchcraft and heresy were used to sanctify torture and seizures of property. In post 9-11 America, child porn and terrorism serve as the denunciations of choice," said Dr Jackson.

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US Government Moves to Seize All Gold Backing E-gold
(Source: http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000909.html)

Someone pointed out that the indictment unsealed last week against e-gold, etc includes this clause:

78. As a result of the offenses alleged in Counts One and Three of this indictment, the defendants E-GOLD, LTD., GOLD & SILVER RESERVE, INC., DOUGLAS JACKSON, REID JACKSON, and BARRY DOWNEY shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, involved in, or traceable to such property involved in money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956, and in operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 1960; including, but not limited to the following:

(a) The sum of money equal to the total amount of property involved in, or traceable to property involved in those violations. Fed.R.Crim.P. 32.2(b)(1).

(b) All the assets, including without limitation, equipment, inventory, accounts receivable and bank accounts, of E-GOLD, LTD., and GOLD & SILVER RESERVE, INC., whether titled in those names or not, including, but not limited to all precious metals, including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, that "back" the e-metal electronic currency of the E-GOLD operation, wherever located.

If more than one defendant is convicted of an offense, the defendants so convicted are jointly and severally liable for the amount derived from such offense. By virtue of the commission of the felony charged in Counts One and Three of this indictment, and and all interest that the defendant has in the property involved in, or traceable to property involved in money laundering is vested in the United States and hereby forfeited to the United States pursuant to Title 18, United States Code,
Section 982(a)(1).

(My emphasis. I included the whole clause, intending to allow each to form their own opinions. Of course, you and I should read the whole thing...)

A little background. In the gold community, it is dictum that the US is no respecter of property rights. Twice in the 20th century, the financial rebels will point out, the US seized the gold of its private citizens, generally as a result of its own bad management of the currency, and trying to stop people from fleeing the over-inflated dollar.

In this case, the US government is seeking to seize all of the gold held within the system as reserves to the currency, without due regard to the operation of property rights for the rest of the user base. It would seem an over-broad reaching by the government, but sadly, expected and unsurprising to the digital currency community.

Whatever one thinks of e-gold, its operators and their actions, this is likely to reinforce the reputation of complete and utter disrespect that the US has for property rights around the world.

Unfortunately, this is no isolated case, but is in fact a concerted and long-lived programme by the US government to undermine property rights the world around. The US-invented Anti Money Laundering (AML) regime stretches back 20 years or more to Ronald Reagan's war on drugs, and is now sufficiently strong to destroy the effect of property laws, which latter are nothing if not strong.

AML takes implementing countries backwards in time and history. Although England and its former colonies inherited strong property rights from the days of the Magna Carta, it is as well to realise that the English experiment may have been more an exception than the rule. Consider Russia as counterpoint:

Since only the Tsar or the Party had property, no individual Russian could be sure of long-term usage of anything upon which to create wealth. And it is the poor to whom the property right matters most of all because property is the poor man's ticket into the game of wealth creation. The rich, after all, have their money and their friends to protect their holdings, while the poor must rely upon the law alone.

"The Rape of Russia" was not ancient history according to Williamson's 1999 testimony before the US House of Representatives, but living times: during the decade of the 1990s, the same group conspired with Russians to launder much of the residual value of the Russian people.

One would hope that the court is a little wise to the fact that if e-gold Ltd's system was used for crimes, then there was also use for good purposes; that is, it was the operators and some users that were responsible. Normally we would expect the system to be placed under administration, and then a wholesale cleanout of any "bad" accounts to occur, under court supervision.

If not, the author above warned the US Congress what will happen to those who dismantle what property rights there are:

Connections

In the absence of property, it was access - the opportunity to seek opportunity - and favor in which the Russians began to traffic. The connections one achieved, in turn, became the most essential tools a human being could grasp, employ and, over time, in which he might trade. Where relationships, not laws, are used to define society's boundaries, tribute must be paid. Bribery, extortion and subterfuge have been the inevitable result. What marks the Russian condition in particular is the
scale of these activities, which is colossal. Russia, then, is a negotiated culture, the opposite of the openly competitive culture productive markets require.

It is fairly clear that the e-gold operation was presented to the world and operated as a property rights operation. Although not without shenanigans, the very basis of the digital gold community has been a joyful expression of the right of property, and what good it can do when it is left to run free.

Unfortunately, the US government may have learnt too much from the Russian experience. The substantial crime in the indictment is "property rights without a licence" and the fine for that is "seizing all the property." Welcome to the world of tribute; bribery, extortion and subterfuge to follow.

Mit solchen Zahlen wird EG nicht so rasch "sterben".....

http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html

Yup, interessand sind diese zahlen:


Da scheint aber jemand kraeftig was zu bewegen, ich tippe auf omnipay


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