I'm not sure I follow you. The money that they lost (scare quotes or not) was not theirs, it was their users'. It's not like they could use it to hire someone.
To lose someone else's money means you actually lost it.
To 'lose' someone else's money means you lost it into your own account.
The previous poster was suggesting that the money hadn't been necessarily been lost to thieves but that Karpelès, himself, had stolen at least a good portion of it and then used some of it for bribes.
