What NZ criminal offence is Dotcom accused of having committed?

I know that Dotcom is accused of committing a whole raft of criminal
offenses under US law. But can anyone tell me what NZ criminal offence
he's accused of having committed? TIA.

 

According to the FBI indictment, Dotcom and his associates have
already stated in intercepted documents that they have materially
profited from unauthorised trafficking in copyrighted material. Under NZ
copyright law profiting from such trafficking is a criminal offence which
carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. This is more than the
four years maximum required to justify the laying of criminal conspiracy
charges -"participation in organised criminal group"- under the Crimes
Act. If the intercepted documents are allowed as evidence and are as the
FBI claims then Dotcom and his buddies are in trouble.

With all of the money in play, money laundering charges are also
likely. Potentially 7 years in prison for the principals and 5 years for
being accessory to an offence.

Several potentially serious charges here, without needing to deal
with the messy details about how many users have links to any particular
file and whether or not some or all or none of those links are authorised
by NZ law.

 

Na he was Born, no its the US that runs this Country..

How are they confiscating his stuff even before he has been tried.

Seems to me that the NZ gov has been stood over..

 

Seems like you are one of those Corrupt FBI officials, believe in 1/2 of
what you read, its a total Frame up, he has not committed any thing at
all, it was because he was going to provide a Legit Music Dnload service
what put the wind up of the RIAA and money would go direct to the
Artist.

You should watch CH7 Media Watch.

Just don't post what you saw on the News Its Total US Crap..

 

Seems like you're an idiot. The NZ Police and Govt believe it too and
so does anyone with more than two brain cells.

 

Thanks. But that still doesn't answer my question. What NZ criminal
offence or offences was he arrested for having violated?

 

None
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition

 

Thanks. I know that the US wants to extradite Dotcom in order to stand
trial for the US laws he's accused of having violated.

But Dotcom was arrested in New Zealand by the New Zealand police, not
in the US by the FBI. So what NZ criminal offence or offenses was he
arrested for having allegedly violated? What New Zealand offences were
specified on the arrest warrant/s?

 

I already answered you. None. Guess you didn't read the article on
extradition.

 

But he hasn't be extradited ... he's been arrested.

 

On the contrary. I did read the article and while it does a good job
of summarizing extradition in general it obviously does not address
this specific case.

So ... if the answer to my question is that Dotcom and co were
arrested in New Zealand by New Zealand police without them having
violated any NZ laws, I'm assuming the police still had to have an
arrest warrant authorised by a magistrate. Assuming that the NZ police
still need an arrest warrant to arrest people in this country, does
anyone know what the warrant stated as being the justification for the
arrest?

 

But Dotcom and co have not been extradited. They've been arrested.

 

It was a provisional arrest. I'm sure you can google as well as I
can.

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/20...ody-as-new-zealand-awaits-extradition-request

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0055/latest/whole.html#DLM26216

 

Some comments from a lawyer
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10784190

 

Thank you. I use Google a lot and tried posing the question but got no
answers.

Now I'm going to try and find out how the NZ authorities are
justifying the seizing of Dotcom's property. If he hasn't violated a
NZ law then how can they use the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act?

 

Interesting point, but murder and rape are criminal offences in New
Zealand. I may be wrong, but I don't think copyright infringement is
.... yet.

 

Making *my* money, for he has not killed anyone or tortured them.

 

Absolutely not. That's fair comment.

Vice versa, if the Iranian religious police would demand a woman be
extradited for having an extramarital relationship and sleeping with an
X-tian hence being eligible for stoning to death under sharia law -- how
would we feel about that? Should we clap her in jail with no bail? Send
her to Teheran, gift wrapped? Sleeping around is not a crime in this
country.

Would the cops rush in with swat teams and black helicopters?

There are countless so called business people in NZ who have done worse
to their investors than that Mr. Dotcom has to the entertainment
industry (assuming that the allegations against him are true, which I
think has to be taken with significant doubt: ffs, the guy was employing
high powered lawyers to make sure he was NOT getting into hot water) and
I don't see _them_ being held in prison without bail. There's clearly an
'example' being set up for a witch-burning here, regardless of how
guilty or innocent he is.

What *particularly galls* is that when we, the citizens, need the cops,
they aren't there. The convicted pedophile from up the road, stalking a
13 year old girl, the cop didn't want to know when the parents reported
it. The kids with guns walking around on my place shooting at livestock,
the cop didn't want to know about. A friend had his house cleaned right
out, the cop said: "why did you come to US?" when the friend said he
didn't need the piece of paper for the insurance. I kid you not.
Some louts came in and shot some of my stock and took them away, the
cops didn't want to know until I went to the area commander. Then the
cop denied the perpetrators had had a gun when 3 of my neighbours had
seen them. Didn't even bother to interview the eyewitnesses. I called
111 on the cell when I saw a guy getting the shit kicked out of him,
covered in blood on the ground outside a pub, no cops ever showed up in
over 1/2 an hour that I stayed near by (hey, I wasn't getting mixed up
in THAT) ... by the same token I've seen a couple of cops pepperspraying
a handcuffed intellectually handicapped guy in the streets of Kaikohe
who was not offering them any resistance (although he had rolled himself
out of the cop-car at an intersection). All of this in the last 10
years.

But the FBI whistles and they bring out the Big Guns. Literally. I am
PISSED OFF with those arseholes. I have no respect left for the nz
police. None. I will not be surprised if the whole thing turns out like
that 'east coast terrorists' debacle, in the end.

Not saying Dotcom is guilty or innocent, I haven't a clue. But I do know
that the 'armed offenders' are looking more and more like terrorists
than like the 'good guys'. The mere fact of how they go about hiding
their identity and their faces really says it all.


Ffs.

 

Countless? I don't think so. How many can you name?

This is rubbish. Please provide some evidence to support this
statement.

 

My understanding is that the communications intercepted by the FBI
include records of them talking to each other about how much money they
were making on the back of illegal downloads and of them making
arrangements to operate the business. In other words that they admit in
their own communication with each other to criminal conspiracy. It is
enough to prove criminal intent to get a conviction on criminal
conspiracy charges. Cops love conspiracy charges and bring them whenever
they can. I think that it sucks, Dotcom and his friends are hardly
gangsters and civil prosecution would be quite enough.