[Karlozkiller]

He disputes the emails claiming they are made up and tampered with insinuating his partner in selling these CDs has implicated him to get a lesser sentence.

Obviously someone in this whole mess is lying or grossly misinformed, the problem is figuring out who.

He said he had IT-experts testify in court that the emails had been tampered with, I assume one could look into that in some kind of public record over the case?

[notahacker]

There are court documents linked to by Microsoft, but perhaps unsurprisingly after reading them, generally not by the pro Lundgren blogs.

To be honest, whilst I wouldn't necessarily trust his partner trying to save his own skin, I'm even less convinced by someone that mentions a sale price of $3 for a Windows 7 and $4 for XP (odd pricing, but maybe reflects how convincing the counterfeit disks were or even how usable the software is without a license key...) in their defence in court, then tells the media he intended to give them away at $0.25 cost price.

Sometimes you have to look past the fact one party is a recycling entrepreneur and the other party is Microsoft...

[tripletao]

Do you have a link where he alleges the tampering? I'd be interested to learn more. I should try to find the court documents, usually available through a PACER-type thing for a nonzero but modest charge.

[Karlozkiller]

It's quite a long video, I can not claim to have seen it all, but the allegations should come up within the first 36 minutes and after the initial introduction by the third party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hnVYMoctM

EDIT: The court documents were linked in another comment, I relink it: https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/FIN...