My personal speculation is that he is selling mtgox ltd and keeping tibanne
A friend of mine just sent me this
https://github.com/apngasm/apngasm/blob/master/BACKERS.txt
He is working remotely for a Japan company and his employer just realized that one of the backers of his kickstarter is the guy from the breaking news today.
"Mark Karpeles http://www.tibanne.com/ PHP can do stuff!"
The interesting part is that today he changed the referral site from http://www.mtgox.com/ to http://www.tibanne.com/
He said he was a "very generous donor"
"It looks like he was an active backer on KickStarter, backing over 100 projects with the most recent ending less than a month ago. Many of the projects he backed were Open Source software or hardware."
"every project he backed is a project I would back. He has extremely good taste"
"I've had no contact with him other than the kickstarter survey though. He has not repsponed to any of may messages through KS"
Good to know he's been investing my money in something. Maybe I'll get a return on one of these projects!