Well, if the allegations against him are to be believed he and his tax affair advisors made a huge mistake by not mentioning the 131,000 BTC attributed to be owned by his two companies MemoryDealers.com and Agilestar.com.

If the law states clearly that an exit-tax had to be paid then it should have been taken care of. I do not know what Ver has stated in his defence about the specific allegation other than him generally stating he effectively employed tax advisors to ensure he did not make mistakes as he did not want to find himself in trouble at a later date.

Sad story. But maybe US President Donald Trump will pardon him? If he pardoned Ross Ulbricht, anything's possible. At least, Roger Ver's case is not as bad as SBF's. The latter got away with investors' money and was even a huge donor to the Democratic Party.

Roger Ver is a well-known OG Bitcoiner, beloved by many in the community. He may have moved to the "Bitcoin Cash" cause (big blocks). But at least he did many good things for Bitcoin in the early days. Just like Charlie Shrem. I hope Roger Ver gets out of prison soon. Best of luck to him and his family.

Roger Ver will probably have more support than Ulbricht had. There is Bitcoin.com for one - he owns that obviously - and I'm sure he's made quite a lot of industry connections from the early years of Bitcoin who will be sympathetic as well.

Lawyering up should not be an issue for him, but if they're going to detain him, they might as well give him a fair trial if court is where they wanted to take him.

https://youtu.be/Hwk_-0UKcY4?t=510

William Duplessie, an "investment manager" for convicted felon Roger Ver, has been arrested for kidnapping and torturing a target to try to steal 22 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency.  He can be seen co-hosting a weekly BCH promotional show with Ver in the above video.

People here should think carefully about the kind of violent thugs they're defending.  There is of course a lot of negative things to say about the US's tax policy, but committing tax fraud doesn't make someone a good person.  Ver has stolen millions of dollars from cryptocurrency users by bankrupting coinflex, millions from crypto industry companies by failing to make good on his options contracts, apparently laundered funds for the mtgox hacker, and has a long history of being at most one step removed from the worst of the worst as we see here.

A lot of the gangsters of yesteryear ended up going down for tax evasion because it was just a lot easier to prove than the rest of their criminal enterprise which was concealed with layers of fall guys and plausibility deniability.

We need to create a huge movement to get Roger freed, Trump pardoned Ross so we should try to get him to give a pardon to Roger as well. It's possible but for it to happen everyone needs to support this. Let's get Roger free

Why would Trump consider pardoning Ver when he has not been found guilty of any crime? If Ver (or anybody else for that matter) was found guilty of a crime and was in a US jail, a pardon is a possibility no matter how remote.

If we put aside our personal opinions and whether we like or dislike Ver and only look at the facts regarding the case against him, it seems as though Ver and/or his tax advisors made errors. If the alleged tax evasion relates to Bitcoin that were owned by his companies and not him and were not declared when he emigrated then that does have legal implications.

Even if the timing of the arrest and extradition request can be called in to question, the fact remains if he did not pay the correct tax there is a problem and that problem should be resolved with either a plea deal where Ver pays the money and the case against him is withdrawn or if he believes he does not need to pay the tax because the authorities are wrong he should fight the case in court.