I think it's very simple...
Do you remember Vircurex situation?
Do that for a momment and again think MtGox
Recentrly received a big ammount of Cash from OkPay. Why send them to gox and not to clients?
And investigation have told us is ongoing.
my thought is that the have found 100% what happened and trying to reopen somehow the exchange without anyone "hurts"..
So they have to find the best way to tell us "the truth" and give back to owners the BTC. This will take some time to write the senario etc....
my time in Japan tells me that this is absolutely not what is happening. Once a Japanese court has chosen to go one way they do not easily turn around. Ask this man:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/japanese-man-freed-death-row-retrial