Eccentric, in his career, he was convicted several times for various types of fraud, which helped him lead a millionaire lifestyle and the highest standard of living, He'll finally be extradited to the US: We're talking about Kim Dotcomfamous in Italy above all as the founder of Megaupload, the file-sharing platform that in the 2000s became one of the main tools for the dissemination of pirated audio, video and software content. The company was seized and dismantled by the FBI in 2012, with an arrest warrant for Kim Dotcom, whose real name is Kim Schmitz, of German origin but resident in New Zealand, With accusations not only of copyright infringement, but also of money laundering, bank fraud and criminal association.
After a 12-year legal battle, New Zealand's Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has signed off on Kim Dotcom's extradition, who will now have to stand trial in the United States, although it has already been announced that there is a plan to escape punishment this time too.
Kim Dotcom, along with his partners Finn Patato (CMO), Matthias Ortmann (Megaupload co-founder and CTO) and Bram van der Kolk, was the protagonist of a spectacular arrest at his luxury villa outside Auckland in January 2012, in an operation involving 76 agents and two helicopters, which resulted in the seizure of several hard drives that were handed over, without controversy in New Zealand, directly to the FBI. Today he makes his voice heard above all by spreading fake news and conspiracy theories of all kinds about X.