Kim Dotcom is being Megauploaded to the US for trial

Kim Dotcom is being extradited to the United States to look long-standing transgression charges relating to his defunct file-sharing work Megaupload. The bid was signed by New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith according to Stuff, saying helium received “extensive proposal from the Ministry of Justice connected this matter” and that “Mr Dotcom should beryllium surrendered to the US to look trial.”

As the laminitis and erstwhile CEO of Megaupload, Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz) was accused by US authorities of having outgo movie studios and grounds companies implicit $500 cardinal by enabling users to stock pirated content. The German-born Internet mogul moved to New Zealand successful 2010, and has been warring extradition since section police, astatine the behest of the FBI, raided his Auckland mansion successful 2012 implicit charges of racketeering, wealth laundering, and copyright infringement. The Department of Justice unopen down Megaupload that aforesaid year.

Dotcom, who has spent the past respective years pushing assorted conspiracy theories and integer disinformation, responded to the deportation ruling connected X, saying “the obedient US colony successful the South Pacific conscionable decided to extradite maine for what users uploaded to Megaupload, unsolicited.” Two erstwhile Megaupload officers, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, were handed 31 and 30-month situation sentences respectively past twelvemonth aft signing a plea woody to debar extradition.