Former owner 7500 The TCC called the authorities to cancel the ban on the search for a hard disk on a landfill – Bits Media

Bitcoin investor, which ten years ago accidentally threw off a hard computer disk with data about the wallet on 7500 Vts, threatens to sue and bankrupt local council, controlling the landfill.

Unlucky James Hawells (James Howells) He is unsuccessfully trying to dig up a landfill of the English city of Newport in search of lost digital assets. Now he decided to file a lawsuit against the local authorities on compensation for damage in the amount $557 million.

“I tried everything, What could, over the past ten years. However, the municipal council did not go to meet me. Therefore, now we will meet in court ", – Hawells threatened.

In an open letter in the name of the city council of Newport Hawells wrote, that it intends not only to achieve a judicial ban on carrying out all the work in the territory of the garbage training ground, But threatens the meeting body and the municipality of bankruptcy from the payment of multimillion -dollar fines and repayment of legal costs.

The investor said, that I am ready to go to a settlement agreement, If the advice allows you to start an excavation of the landfill to 18 september.

A year earlier in an interview with British media, James Hawells said
The plans to use in search of a two-time device of two robots-tunes of the American company Boston Dynamics in search.