[...] And BTW: you never replied as to how much did he offer you in order to defend him???
Dude, you're threading on thin ice here. Let's see, who's more respected/trusted here: the one being "Legendary" with a
+45 trust score, or the other one who's a "full member" with a
-2 trust rating...?
Anyway: watch it with the unfounded accusations...
Don't worry about it, I've had Krackhead on 'ignore' ever since it became apparent he was persisting with repeatedly posting the same false 'facts' which Steven had already corrected him on. He's either part of BTC-E's strategy for discrediting Steven or he's just another tweaker asshole incapable of thinking straight. Either way he's not helping or helpful to the task of getting BTC-E to properly resolving this situation.
On the other hand I must say that I find Steven's story less probable with each passing day. All electronic verifications are not possible for one reason or the other. And the passport picture - as said by others - is easily fakeable... don't know, but I've been doing business with BTC-e for years now, without any issues...
It is fair enough to say that you find Steven's story 'less probable', but BTC-E have the ID documentation of the account owner on file and Steven has emailed them scans of his notarised ID documents which he is also willing to courier in hard-copy to them if they'd actually provide a serviceable address for delivery. Hell, they even told him he'd need to visit their offices in Moscow to prove his ID, something which is grossly improper a demand to make, and he said he would be willing to do so but they then dropped that demand just as fast as all the others they've tried using to deny restoring his funds to him.
That the Gmail and Skype accounts are unrecoverable are not two separate issues, they are effectively only one because the Skype account could be recovered if he had access to the Gmail account, but he does not. Losing access to a Gmail account is hardly a far-fetched claim and neither is no longer having the private key for an old BTC address. Perhaps his PC/Laptop was seized/compromised/destroyed, or any number of perfectly ordinary events which can lead to this kind of situation arising a few years later.
So, in that Steven says he can prove with internationally recognised legal documentation that he is the same person as the identity BTC-E
already have on file for that account, it matters not what spurious and baseless accusations people want to throw around about how they wouldn't have gone about things the same way or describing how they would have handled the situation differently.
BTC-E have closed multiple tickets on Steven about this matter without properly resolving it. Whatever your thoughts are on Steven or BTC-E, you cannot deny that to witness how BTC-E are incompetently responding to what is just an 'account recovery' process, should at least raise questions as to their professionalism or even their honesty.