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The New Zealand Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that Kim Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, where he faces 20 years in prison, a serious setback for the flamboyant German founder of Megaupload.com, accused by US justice for mbadive Internet piracy
The defense lawyers appealed a previous similar decision against Kim Dotcom, whose real name is Kim Schmitz, as well as three of his colleagues. 19659002] "The evidence provided by the United States clearly shows (…) that the appellants (Ed, Kim Dotcom and the other defendants) conspired and deliberately violated copyrights on a large scale for commercial gains, "said the court in a statement.
The case erupted in January 2012 when New Zealand police conducted a spectacular morning raid on Dot Dot Mansion, Kim Dotcom's sumptuous property in Auckland.
L The US Department of Justice and the FBI accuse the 44-year-old German national of orchestrating a large-scale online looting through Megaupload.com, his iconic direct download platform, which was shut down by US law enforcement. day of the raid
Kim Dotcom and three alumni of Megaupload –Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk– had suffered in February 2017 another setback of justice New Zealand, which had confirmed a judgment of extradition of first instance in 2015.
Kim Dotcom and his colleagues are accused by the FBI of taking $ 175 million in profits from their business and causing more than half a billion dollars in losses to their owners. right of musical works, films and other pirated products
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