5 ms·

I'm not entirely sure that's the case. The guy is the CEO. So let's say he can't access it from the UK. The UK guys tell him "give us the documents or you go t

I'm not entirely sure that's the case. The guy is the CEO. So let's say he can't access it from the UK. The UK guys tell him "give us the documents or you go to jail". Well then he could ask an employee who is currently in the US to unlock them for him, maybe even give them his password. Basically, there is usually a way to get things done if there is a threat of jail pending. The greater issue is how the UK was allowed to even do something like this to a person who hadn't done anything illegal.

lixtra 8y ago
Well, he can tell his employees beforehand to only accept such order if he is in the US. Otherwise the documents should not leave the country. Then he would have to reply that he is unable to provide access to the documents. Another reply suggested that he should have contacted the US embassy and ask that he is forced to commit a crime in the US by UK. This would have lifted it to a diplomatic level. From the circumstances it sounds possible that he wanted the documents published and was happy to be forced.