In an appellate judicial ruling at the New Zealand High Court, a judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must allow Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-shuttered Megaupload site, to see more evidence against him in his extradition case to the United States. The ruling marks a significant blow to the American efforts to get Dotcom extradited to the US.
Following the January 2012 over-the-top raid on his New Zealand mansion, the German-Finnish dual citizen has been charged in the United States with various counts of copyright infringement and money laundering—charges he has emphatically denied. A Virginia-based grand jury has already been convened, where it awaits Dotcom’s extradition.
In the earlier case, New Zealand government lawyers argued, on behalf of the American government, that it did not need to release all of the documents in question, just that it needed to show that its case was strong enough to possibly obtain a conviction.
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