Who is Kim Dotcom? New Zealand to extradite him to the United States
Who is Kim Dotcom? New Zealand to extradite him to the United States
New Zealand is all set to extradite Kim Dotcom to the United States following approval by the justice minister on Thursday.
Kim Dotcom was born in Germany, but he has New Zealand residency. Kim has been fighting his extradition to the United States since 2012 for 12 years. He is facing charges connected to his file-sharing site Megaupload, which was put down by the US government authorities in the same year.
The Justice Minister of New Zealand, Paul Goldsmith, signed an extradition order for Kim Dotcom, paving the way for his deportation. According to the government statement on Thursday, Goldsmith said, “I considered all of the information carefully, and have decided that Mr Dotcom should be surrendered to the US to face trial.”
He added, “As is common practice, I have allowed Mr Dotcom a short period of time to consider and take advice on my decision. I will not, therefore, be commenting further at this stage.”
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However, on Thursday, Kim Dotcom took to X (previously Twitter), and wrote: “I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving.”
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Kim Dotcom is the founder of Megaupload, a website that allows millions of users to store their files in an online locker and share them with others. Shortly after his website was put down, he was arrested by the New Zealand Police who arrived at his luxury mansion in Auckland with two marked helicopters and had to force their way to the secured room he was in.
Along with three co-accused, Dotcom was charged by a US grand jury on several charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to infringe copyright, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and money laundering. The US authorities have charged the four accused men of profiting from copyright infringement through their website.
The four accused men, including Kim Dotcom, have been denying the accusations and have been fighting against extradition to the US, arguing their website Megaupload was just a simple file-sharing website. They shouldn't be blamed for the content or files uploaded by the users.
Three New Zealand courts ruled against them and rejected their arguments and claims that they could not be extradited on the charge of profiting from copyright infringement because the crime did not occur in the country. The final decision on the extradition of Kim Dotcom rested with the Justice Minister.
(With inputs from agencies)
