Lawyers for Ira Kleiman, brother of the deceased computer forensic scientist and mathematician Dave Kleiman, have filed a lawsuit against self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright. Reuters writes about it.

Plaintiff was dissatisfied with the dismissal of a new trial, all the “previous decisions” and the final decision rendered in March 2022. Accordingly, Wright must pay a total of $143 million to W&K Info Defense Research.

The agency claims that Kleiman’s conviction that the defendant’s lawyers allegedly turned the jury against him is the basis of the new case. According to him, the defense has said several times that Dave and Ira lived separately, and the latter “hadn’t seen his brother for more than three years.”

“I won for the first time and I fully expect to win again,” Wright said.

In February 2018, Ira Kleiman sued Craig Wright. The plaintiff accused the latter of embezzling 1.1 million BTC allegedly belonging to Dave Kleiman, who was associated with the creation of the first cryptocurrency.

At the same time, WizSec experts discovered that the bitcoin addresses cited in the lawsuit were never owned by Kleiman or Wright.

In August 2019, Florida Southern District Court ordered the recovery of 500,000 BTC from Wright. Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto refused to participate in the settlement agreement. Operations resumed.

In May 2020, 145 early bitcoin addresses signed a message accusing Wright of fraud and perjury. He claimed that these addresses belonged to him.

In September of that year, the court denied Wright’s request for summary judgment. He previously said that the statute of limitations had expired and the plaintiff was unable to prove a verbal agreement.

The self-proclaimed bitcoin creator’s defense was based on two aspects: a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder and the absence of a written agreement with Kleiman. According to the defendant’s lawyer, his client and Kleiman had a different understanding of the word “partner” because of autism.

Recall that in December 2021, the jury rejected the allegations against Wright and decided that he should pay $100 million in damages to W&K Information Defense Research. convert “proper” bitcoins.