Paul Ceglia, the man who claims to own half of Facebook recently said that he had earlier fled as his life was at risk, as per a letter he sent to Bloomberg.
Ceglia had earlier claimed that had paperwork to prove that he owned half of the company. He sued Facebook and CEO Zuckerberg, saying that he had entered into a contract agreement with the company in 2003. However, the case was ruled out in March 2013, as the government investigators found no evidence that could back Ceglia’s claims.
Prior to the ruling, Ceglia was arrested in 2012 and charged for running a scheme to defraud Facebook, by using fabricated and destroyed evidence to support his false claim. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, after being charged with one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.
In 2015, Ceglia snapped off his ankle bracelet and disappeared, two months before he was scheduled to go on trial. He was trying to revive the case, even when he was on the run. However the courts turned down all his appeals.
The current whereabouts of Ceglia is still unknown, but he did send the email to Bloomberg.
“I felt I had no one in government I could trust,” he wrote in the email.
“An opportunity presented itself, so I MacGyver’d some things together and started running for my life,” he wrote.
