Kim dot com loses the last attempt to avoid handing us over a huge loading charge

Lamington, New Zealand -The New Zealand court rejected the most recent presentation by the Internet entrepreneur Kim.com to stop his deportation to the United States on charges of his location on the file sharing site.

Dotcom asked the Supreme Court to review the legitimacy of the official’s decision in August 2024 that it should be handed over to the United States to confront a trial on charges of violating copyright, money laundering and extortion. This was the last chapter in a long battle by the US government to hand over the German Finn Millionaire from New Zealand.

The founder of Megaupload submitted a request for the so -called New Zealand judicial review, where the judge is required to evaluate whether the official’s decision is legal.

On Wednesday, Hajj Dot Kom, said that the decision to deport him was political driven and that he would face greatly incompatible treatment in the United States in a written decision, and Judge Christine Grace refused to claim dot Kumler that New Zealand men were wrong to accuse his business partners, but not, according to local laws – which is likely to be a court of breaking the one who tried.

The last decision can be challenged in the Court of Appeal, where the deadline for submitting the deposit is October 8. It was not immediately clear whether Dotcom would do so.

One of his lawyers, Ron Mansfield, told Radio New Zealand that the dot com team “is subject to a lot of fighting in us and we are seeking to secure a fair result,” but he did not explain.

No dotcom nor Mansfield responded to a request for comment from the Associated Press on Thursday.

The New Zealand government did not reveal what will happen after that in the process of delivery or disclosure of a expected timetable for Dotcom delivery to the United States.

The epic returns to the arrest of January 2012 by the New Zealand authorities in Dotcom in A. A dramatic raid on his palace in AucklandAlong with the other company officers, at the request of the FBI. American prosecutors said that Megaupload has achieved at least $ 175 million, especially from the people who used the site to download songs, TV programs and movies illegally, before the FBI closed it earlier that year.

Dotcom’s lawyers and others who were arrested have arrested that the site’s users, founded in 2005, who chose pirate materials, not their founders. But the prosecutors said that the men were the engineers of a vast criminal institution, as the Ministry of Justice described it as the largest issue of criminal copyright in the history of the United States.

It has been free to sponsor in New Zealand since February 2012.

He was interviewed at his sprawling home 60 minutes in 2014Dotcom told the Bob Simon correspondent that he was an inspiration to search for his wealth through James Bond films, “Where, as you know, some characters had special islands and supercomwers that turned into yacht, space stations and underwater homes. So, you know, I was inspired.”

“But you do not play James Bond, you are playing Dr. no,” Simon suggested.

“This is what everyone says,” the businessman answered the Internet.

Dotcom and its commercial partners fought the efforts of the FBI to hand them over for years, including by challenging law enforcement actions in New Zealand during the investigation and arrests. In 2021, the New Zealand Supreme Court ruled that Dotcom and two other men can be delivered.

Under New Zealand, it remained left to the country’s Minister of Justice to decide whether delivery should continue. Minister Paul Goldsmith, Judgment in August 2024 that it should be.

But by that time, Dotcom was the only person whose fate remained in the question. Two of his former business partners, Matays Ortman and Bram Van der Kolk, admitted that he was guilty of charges against them in the New Zealand court in June 2023 and were sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

On the other hand, the United States’ efforts were dropped to deliver it. Part of the last legal presentation of Dotcom has been challenged in the police decision not to extend the seam according to New Zealand laws to it as well.

Grace refused this, saying that the choice of Ortmann and Van Der Kolk in New Zealand was a “suitable exercise for the police.” Jurisprudence also refused to claim Dotcom that Goldsmith’s decision to deliver was a political drive.

Prosecutors earlier abandoned their offer to surrender against a fourth officer of the huge officers, the Finnish Patato, who was arrested in New Zealand. Patato returned to Germany, where he died of cancer in 2022.

In November 2024, Dotcom said in a post on X that he was stroke. He wrote at X in July that he was “good progress” in his recovery, but he was still suffering from a disability in speech and memory.

Goldsmith’s decision was made that Dotcom should be delivered before stroke. But Grace said that the minister looked at the “important health conditions” that dot com faced and was not wrong to conclude that this should not prevent him from deporting.