Kim Dotcom Will Be Extradited to the U.S. After Decade Long Legal Fight

After implicit a decade, Kim Dotcom volition beryllium extradited from New Zealand backmost to the U.S. to look transgression charges related to his defunct file-sharing business, Megaupload.

Born Kim Schmitz, the German-born tech entrepreneur legally changed his past sanction to Dotcom successful 2005, and founded Megaupload the aforesaid year. The concern was palmy for awhile but Dotcom ran into occupation aft U.S. authorities deemed it a haven for web piracy and the trafficking of copyrighted material. Federal instrumentality enforcement officials person claimed that Dotcom and different Megaupload executives outgo movie and euphony studios over $500 million by allowing their copyrighted worldly to beryllium posted to the site. Meanwhile, the institution seemingly made tens of millions of dollars disconnected the business. In 2012, officials seized Megaupload’s website and indicted institution officials with copyright-related crimes.

Dotcom has lived successful New Zealand since 2008 and has been warring extradition to the U.S. since 2012, CNN reports. On Thursday, New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith signed a authorities bid that allows for Dotcom’s extradition to the U.S. “I considered each of the accusation carefully, and person decided that Mr Dotcom should beryllium surrendered to the US to look trial,” Goldsmith said. “As is communal practice, I person allowed Mr Dotcom a abbreviated play of clip to see and instrumentality proposal connected my decision. I volition not, therefore, beryllium commenting further astatine this stage.”

“Don’t interest I person a plan,” Dotcom tweeted ominously, including a winking emoji. Don’t bash thing excessively crazy, Kim. It’s ne'er excessively precocious to marque your concern substantially worse. In another tweet this week, Dotcom referred to New Zealand arsenic “the obedient US colony successful the South Pacific” which helium said had “just decided to extradite maine for what users uploaded to Megaupload.”

In caller years, Dotcom has go a vocal professional of the U.S. and has been known to dispersed conspiracy theories (including Covid-related ones) and anti-government rhetoric connected X. He precocious went on The Alex Jones Show to sermon however the “world is connected the brink of atomic war.”