“I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” said Bitcache and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on X after the New Zealand Justice Minister signed off on a United States extradition order.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload and crypto platform BitCache, plans to fight an order to extradite him to the United States to answer for criminal charges.
In a post on X on Aug. 15, the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and political activist said, “I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” and later reposted a message from his legal team, suggesting he plans to fight extradition.
On Aug. 15, New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith signed an extradition order for Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges in the US relating to the defunct file-sharing website, which US authorities claim cost movie and music studios more than $500 million by allowing copyrighted material to be posted and shared.
