This Thursday, the New Zealand justice found that the search warrants used in January, when police raid against the house's founder Kim Dotcom MegaUpload, were illegal.
Dotcom Kim, aka Kim Schmitz, who has German citizenship, was arrested in New Zealand on January 20th on a warrant issued by U.S. authorities. He was released on bail in February and continues to be a request for extradition from the United States for software piracy and money laundering in relation to its download site and sharing MegaUpload.
"The warrants did not describe adequately the offenses to which they corresponded," said Thursday the judge of the High Court of Justice Helen Winkelmann. "In fact they were far, these were general warrants and, as such, invalid." In a statement, the New Zealand Police has also said it would study the judgment.
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