Kim Dotcom Denied Access to Seized Properties

[CrAKeN]

 

There's a new chapter in the neverending story of Kim Dotcom vs. the US Government after the web mogul's request to get back his seized properties was denied. 

 

Kim Dotcom, the man behind Megaupload, was raided back in 2012. The US government then seized millions of dollars in Dotcom's bank accounts, as well as multiple cars, jet skis, his mansion, luxury cars, TVs, expensive watches and more. Dotcom, who is currently fighting against an extradition request from New Zealand to the United States, asked the courts to get the government to give his assets back. 

 

Last week, however, the Justice Department filed a document which tells the Supreme Court that it should uphold the a federal appeals court decision which ruled against Dotcom back in August, using Dotcom's resistance to the extradition as its reasoning. 

 

"Congress sought to bar the 'unseemly spectacle' of allowing an accused to absent himself deliberately in order to avoid prosecution in the United States while using United States courts to retrieve the proceeds of his crime," the file reads. 

 

On the other hand, Dotcom's lawyers claim that since he has never even stepped foot on US soil, he cannot be labeled a fugitive, accusing the Justice Department of interpreting the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine in a way that suited its purpose. 

 

No end in sight

The US considers the Megaupload case, which has been going in circles for the past five years, to be among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States. The prosecutors said the site facilitated copyright infringement of a massive scale by allowing people to share movies, music, TV shows, e-books and software. 

 

The US believes it has jurisdiction over Megaupload because many of its servers were located in the United States. In fact, there's still a bit of a conflict over who has the right to view the content on those servers too. 

 

People have filed lawsuits against the US government, hoping to be able to get access to the files they had stored in their Megaupload accounts before the service was taken down, especially since many of them had plenty of original content there. Users fear that the data will soon be gone for good. 

 

Source

[mikie]

Give him his stuff back, keep some healthy amount as a fine.  Be done with it rather than continuing the ongoing legal costs to the USA taxpayers as a whole who are ultimately paying for this foolishness.

[dufus]

it warning  talking about seth rich wikileaks

[steven36]

On undefined at 1:50 AM, mikie said:

Give him his stuff back, keep some healthy amount as a fine.  Be done with it rather than continuing the ongoing legal costs to the USA taxpayers as a whole who are ultimately paying for this foolishness.

Here a update hes going get millions  back of money he made off pirates lol.

Quote

 

Kim Dotcom set to receive seized funds, “4 containers full of seized property”

Kim Dotcom is about to upgrade his lifestyle, and he plans to move from Auckland, New Zealand to Queenstown, a city in the far south of the country, according to a few recent tweets.

The Megaupload founder has been battling an American criminal copyright case from New Zealand for years now, and so far he's successfully resisted extradition. Dotcom was also hit with a civil forfeiture case filed by the Department of Justice, which was brought 18 months after the initial criminal charges. Prosecutors have sought to seize an extensive list of assets, including millions of dollars in various seized bank accounts in Hong Kong and New Zealand, multiple cars, four jet skis, the Dotcom mansion, several luxury cars, two 108-inch TVs, three 82-inch TVs, a $10,000 watch, and a photograph by Olaf Mueller worth over $100,000.

Earlier this month, a New Zealand judge revealed that the country’s signals intelligence agency, known as the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), illegally spied on Dotcom for two months longer than previously admitted.

Earlier this week, Dotcom tweeted the following:

    The HK High Court has just released some of my seized funds. Also getting 4 containers full of seized property back. I miss Hong Kong

    — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 25, 2017

    Thanks to a Hong Kong Judge my family can move to Queenstown and my kids will be surrounded by beautiful mountains & lakes instead of spies.

    — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 25, 2017

He didn’t specify exactly what assets or property, nor did Dotcom say when he would receive them.

Dotcom's attorney, Ira Rothken, texted Ars: "Out of respect for the Hong Kong judicial process we will not comment any further until the court issues a written judgment or order."

 

 

 

 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/kim-dotcom-set-to-receive-seized-funds-4-containers-full-of-seized-property/

I never gave no filehost one red cent and I think Kim was nothing but a good scam artist who got rich off piracy..  

[steven36]

 

Quote

 

GCSB 'had no idea' spy gear was still targeting Kim Dotcom

 

THE GCSB lost control of its surveillance technology and wasn't aware its systems continued spying on Kim Dotcom, according to new documents from the spy bureau.

It claimed that it turned off all surveillance systems targeting Dotcom and others but
found out more than a year later that surveillance continued without its knowledge.

The details in the documents have led Dotcom to state that there is now evidence the United States' National Security Agency was carrying out surveillance on him.

Dotcom, who should have been protected from GCSB surveillance as a New Zealand resident, said the GCSB did not know because its equipment was being used by the NSA, which was "directly involved".

"New Zealanders must know how much power a foreign state holds over their private information," he told the New Zealand Herald.

The admission from the Government Communications Security Bureau was made in High Court papers.

It aimed to explain why Dotcom and others charged in the FBI's Megaupload investigation were spied on for two months longer than previously admitted.

The surveillance against Dotcom led to the revelation the GCSB didn't understand its own law and had illegally spied on 88 people as a result.

If Dotcom were spied on by the NSA through GCSB systems, that number would likely be much higher because it was also following an inaccurate rendering of New Zealand law.

The GCSB has always said it stopped actively spying on Dotcom and his co-accused on January 20, 2012, but a recent High Court judgment revealed that the actual end of surveillance was March 22, 2012.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11897719

 

[Cereberus]

You should also check this out.

Quote

Bell Canada, TVA, Videotron, and Rogers are collectively suing Kodi addon repository TVAddons, TorrentFreak can reveal. The lawsuit targets TVAddons' operator for the alleged unlawful distribution of Kodi software addons. It's fair to say that thus far, this process has revealed some of the most shocking abuses of power ever seen in an online copyright infringement case.

https://torrentfreak.com/tvaddons-returns-ugly-war-canadian-telcos-kodi-addons-170801/

 

how the copyright industry went above and beyond the law. So both Kim Dotcom and Adam Lackman are just a few prime examples of how far reaching lengths the copyright trolls went after them going as far as stepping all over peoples rights in the process.