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The German Internet entrepreneur's team wants to continue the fight against extradition to the United States, where Kim Dotcom threatens several decades of imprisonment before the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
(dpa) In the fight against his extradition to the United States, the German Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who lives in New Zealand, has suffered a legal defeat. The Supreme Court of Appeals of the capital Wellington confirmed Thursday two judgments, according to which a 44-year extradition and three of his colleagues on the evidence would be legal. Against the recent decision, the team of Dotcom lawyers now wants to appeal to the Supreme Court of New Zealand
Born in Kiel and living in New Zealand since 2010, Dotcom fighting his extradition since 2012. US prosecutors accuse the founder of the Megaupload Internet trading platform and his employees among other things of large-scale copyright fraud and money laundering.
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom attends a New England Parliamentary Hearing in New Zealand in 2013: Mark Mitchell / New Zealand Herald via AP, Archive)
In February 2017, a New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States – no for violation of the author's right but for fraud. When he is tried in the United States, he faces several decades of crime.
"We have now heard three different legal interpretations of three different courts," said Dotcom lawyer Ira Rothken. "One of them was convinced that there was no violation of copyright."
With Megaupload, Dotken and its partners generated millions in advertising and customer subscriptions. According to court records, Megaupload ranks tenth among the most popular websites – accounting for 4% of all Internet traffic.
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