Silk Road Similarities: Court Gives Kim Dotcom 'Some' Funds Access (Op-Ed)
Kim Dotcom, the superstar entrepreneur and labeled by Wired as the “Internet's most wanted man” (before Snowden), has been allowed to regain a decent portion of his war chest, from funds seized by the New Zealand government. The entrepreneur behind the controversial file sharing empire MegaUpload has been fighting an expensive legal battle against the US government in the New Zealand courts, after the US raided Dotcom's NZ mansion on counts of racketeering, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, and conspiring to commit money laundering. Early during 2012, the USA aided by the NZ....
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