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WSJ: Megaupload's Dotcom Denied Bail
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203718504577181600977969824.html?mod=googlenews_wsj[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.3077em 0.3077em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Megaupload's Dotcom Denied Bail[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3077em 0.3077em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]WELLINGTON-The founder of website Megaupload.com, Kim Dotcom, will remain in jail as he awaits extradition to the U.S. after a New Zealand judge declined his bail application.
Judge David McNaughton declined the application citing the risk Mr. Dotcom would flee jurisdiction and the possibility that if he reached Germany he wouldn't be extradited to face the charges.
"The real question though on the bail application is whether there is any incentive to flee the jurisdiction," Mr. McNaughton said. "If the applicant were able to leave the country undetected and travel to Germany he would be safe from extradition...While the U.S. government's argument on flight risk in general is not as strong as initially suggested nonetheless I am left in the position that there is a risk and it is a significant risk."
Mr. Dotcom was named in a Federal Bureau of Investigation indictment last week as the founder and, until last year, chief executive of Megaupload. He was arrested alongside Megaupload Chief Marketing Officer Finn Batato, 38, Chief Technical Officer, Director and co-founder Mathias Ortmann, 40, both from Germany, and Dutch national Bram van der Kolk, 29.
Denied bail because...if he fled to Germany, the Germans might not extradite him?
PB
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WSJ: Megaupload's Dotcom Denied Bail (Original Post)
Poll_Blind
Jan 2012
OP
Good point, after all if its really the people behind the corporation then why havent bankers
cstanleytech
Jan 2012
#5
qanda
(10,422 posts)1. Honestly, you can't make this stuff up!
frylock
(34,825 posts)2. they're going to make an example out of this guy
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)4. They're going to try to, at least. nt
PB
Devil_Fish
(1,664 posts)3. The have the wrong guy.
Corporations are people don't you know. This crime was commited by megaupload.com not Kim Dotcom. they need to arrest Megaupload, not Kim. Why is this not glareingly obvious???
cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)5. Good point, after all if its really the people behind the corporation then why havent bankers
been arrested for their actions when it came to the whole mortgage disaster?
bongbong
(5,436 posts)6. Head spinning
My head is spinning at a million RPM because of the blatant hypocrisy.