Any more developments on this? I see they are still making updates to TheBat.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015, 4:09:29 PM, you wrote: MM> Passionate Bats, MM> Yes, they're missing Christmas, but people must be hungry and MM> cold too? MM> Here is a link to the situation in Moldova as recounted in The MM> Economist: MM> http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660165-banking-scandal-set-bankrupt-europes-poorest-country-gutted MM> So our idea of crowdfunding was probably useless unless the funds MM> can be sent to a bank in Romania, or...? MM> Word from a friend came today regarding an analogous situation: J>> We have a friend who just got back from a 2 year Peace Corps J>> stint in Moldova. A group of “business people” <...> pretty J>> much cleaned out all of their bank reserves, and foreign aid J>> has been suspended because most of it is stolen. The whole J>> finance sector there is under emergency decrees with most of J>> the laws suspended. Ritlabs probably did not bribe the people J>> who needed to be bribed. MM> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 10:19:44 AM you wrote: G>> Maxim, >>> Hi Maxim, >>> Yes, we are passionate users. >>> We're on board with whatever help we can do, but our congressmen >>> here in NC are useless for this - they seem to be more interested >>> in building walls, not helping others. But would outside pressure >>> on Moldova (human rights comission) really do any good? You may >>> have to physically move out of Moldova. Can you reincorporate >>> somewhere else? Lichtenstein? EU? Isle of Man? Crowdfunding may >>> help in the short term. G>> It is true, international pressure might not help much. And if it did, in the long G>> term, you still need to find a place to live where things like that are not done. G>> Within the EU somewhere? G>> And, if you don't have TB source code stored somewhere on the internet, like G>> DropBox, you must get those hard drives back or it is all over. G>> But, if you do have the source code safely stored, I would get out of there now G>> and don't look back. That would be me. >>> We were just talking the other day that TB! is one of only two >>> programs we have that seems to be uncorrupted. Be strong! >>> On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 4:15:50 PM you wrote: MM>>>> Dear Passionate Supporters, MM>>>> You've been with us since 1998 (and even before)! We need MM>>>> you help to save our company from an abuse. This abuse can put an end to the company. MM>>>> Since September 2015 our company, Ritlabs, SRL is being MM>>>> abused by police and prosecutors. We have experienced similar MM>>>> attempts before, but now they have taken an acute form. On MM>>>> September 14, 2015 the Police performed search, authorized by MM>>>> a judge, in our office, and seized hard disk drives from all MM>>>> computers, and on December 4, upon authorization of the same MM>>>> judge, they ordered to permanently block all our bank MM>>>> accounts. The judge’s orders in both cases were issued in MM>>>> closed hearing, where we could not present our arguments. MM>>>> There is no such a law in Moldova to permit for a Moldovan MM>>>> court to allow an ex parte suspension of a bank account. But MM>>>> this law was violated in case of Ritlabs, SRL. We have filed MM>>>> an appeal on December 8 and today we have prevailed. The MM>>>> Appeals Chamber has quashed the court order that has blocked MM>>>> our bank accounts. However, we still didn’t get a written MM>>>> decision that we might have shown to the bank. So we still MM>>>> cannot make payment. And the Police and the Prosecutors can MM>>>> make new searches and seizures and block accounts again, for MM>>>> them it is incredibly easy. Our company, Ritlabs, SRL, is not MM>>>> a party of this criminal case. While our accounts are MM>>>> blocked, the employees are not able to receive wages that we MM>>>> transfer monthly to their bank accounts, and we are unable to MM>>>> make any other payment, for example a payment to the hosting provider of our servers. MM>>>> We think it is a deliberate attempt to destroy our company. MM>>>> If our accounts are blocked for more than 30 days, we will be MM>>>> forced to declare insolvency and liquidate and we will not be MM>>>> able to develop or support The Bat! any further. MM>>>> How can the users of The Bat! help save the company and the MM>>>> product, and make it to be developed better and faster? MM>>>> Please ask your local representative to send a diplomatic MM>>>> letter to a Moldovan embassy in your country to ask to MM>>>> recognize due process rights in any criminal proceeding MM>>>> related to Ritlabs, SRL, its employees and its assets, its MM>>>> bank accounts. Ask to recognize the legislation of Moldova MM>>>> and the international conventions of Human Rights. MM>>>> For example, if you are in the United States, please contact MM>>>> your local US Senator, who is a ranking member on the MM>>>> Commerce Committee or another committee and who has a good MM>>>> relationship with you, and who is able to send a letter to MM>>>> the Moldovan embassy in DC asking them to recognize due process rights. MM>>>> If a Moldovan embassy will receive such a letter from an MM>>>> official in your country and will forward it to Moldova, most MM>>>> likely Ritlabs, SRL will survive and will develop The Bat! MM>>>> and new products with much higher speed than before. >>> MM> -- Best regards, Using The Bat! v7.1.12 (Christmas Edition) on Windows 7 6 ________________________________________________ Current version is 7.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
