You guys are missing few key points here.
1.Canadian citizen was in visit to India.
2.Dead body was never been back to Canada.
3.Instead they acquired death certificate from one of the state in India.
4. It is not impossible in India to get your death certificate even when you are alive.
5. He did not planned any "backup continuity plan" for the company but he planned everything for his family just couple of months before his alleged death.
He might have faked his death and took a fake death certificate from India, but how about staying in India as he is not a citizen and he needs to get a permit to stay in India and since this has become a big enough case and attained some publicity, i am not sure how he will be able to hide that fact and stay in another country.
Yes there are some activities before his death that will raise suspicion and the company has forwarded coins in the cold wallet even after his death which creates another puzzle.
You don't know
Pretty sure when you have like 100mill... Those problems tend to disappear quite fast. Like permits, certificates, new identity.. yeah, doubt thats much of an issue.
+1, If you can get the fake death certificate then you will get the "legal" citizenship documents. There are millions of poor people from Bangladesh (neighboring country) that have valid citizenship of India. Quite possible , death is faked in India and citizenship is obtained from any of these country or obtained in India with some new name.
ok, this started to smell fishy, there is no real proof of his death even than death certificate was not shown. sorry, but I know saying anything about someone's death is the worst thing but there is a huge sum of money involved and the problem is not about some private key lockage. it's recoverable so why not they are refunding the funds are giving any note to the users.
Because only CEO knows the private keys and now the CEO is dead, so all you have is lost bitcoins.