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Why do you assume that any coins were in cold storage? That's just another unverifiable assertion.

Gox mentions this on a number of occasions, not the least in 2011 when they detailed how their cold storage system worked with split keys.

Gox also mentioned a lot of stuff before it went dark with everyone's coins. Something obviously went horribly different than planned.

In fairness, it's somewhat likely that everything went exactly as planned, at least for some of the people behind MtGox.