Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets (cnet.com)

The Justice Department wants to keep Kim Dotcom's millions of dollars worth of seized assets, citing the Megaupload founder's fugitive status. The department filed a brief on Friday, which cited his fugitive status as well as a lack of evidence supporting claims that poor health was preventing him from entering the U.S. CNET reports: Dotcom has been in the news since 2012, when the FBI and the US Department of Justice shut down file-sharing site Megaupload and charged the site's operators with the piracy-related offenses. The U.S. government also seized $42 million in assets. Dotcom, alongside Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato, are wanted for trial in the U.S. on 13 counts, including copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud. In February, the New Zealand High Court found that Dotcom, a New Zealand resident, and his co-accused were eligible for extradition to the United States.

Comments

Re:The headline is not consistent with the article

[Gavagai80]

"Fugitive" is typically used to mean someone on the run in hiding, escaping the police... not someone making persistently annoying use of lawyers.

Re:The headline is not consistent with the article

[bradley13]

Far from a saint? Sure, Kim Dotcom is pretty much scum. That doesn't mean that he doesn't deserve justice.

The US has overreached in this case. They somehow convinced New Zealand to go along with it. They both got caught doing illegal stuff, which ought to have ended the case then and there.

Instead, they have adopted a strategy seems to be one of seizing assets, and then running up Dotcom's legal bills, in hopes that he simply won't be able to defend himself any longer. Whatever this is, "justice" isn't the term that springs to mind.