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Title: Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Bid to Avoid US Extradition

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/13/01552...

In 2015 Kim Dotcom answered questions from Slashdot's readers. Now CBS News
reports on "the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S.
government" to extradite Finnish-German millionaire Kim Dotcom from New
Zealand: A New Zealand court has rejected the latest bid by internet
entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the U.S. on charges
related to his file-sharing website Megaupload. Dotcom had asked the High
Court to review the legality of an official's August 2024 decision that he
should be surrendered to the U.S. to face trial on charges of copyright
infringement, money laundering and racketeering... The Megaupload founder had
applied for what in New Zealand is called a judicial review, in which a judge
is asked to evaluate whether an official's decision was lawful. A judge on
Wednesday dismissed Dotcom's arguments that the decision to deport him was
politically motivated and that he would face grossly disproportionate
treatment in the U.S... New Zealand's government hasn't disclosed what will
happen next in the extradition process or divulged an expected timeline for
Dotcom to be surrendered to the United States Dotcom "has been free on bail
in New Zealand since February 2012," the article points out - and "One of his
lawyers, Ron Mansfield, told Radio New Zealand that Dotcom's team had 'much
fight left in us as we seek to secure a fair outcome,' but he didn't
elaborate..." The article notes that the latest decision "could be challenged
in the Court of Appeal, where a deadline for filing is October 8."

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