Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal”
28 06 2012On January 20, New Zealand police showed up in style at the mansion of flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, swarming over the property and bringing along two police helicopters. They cut their way through locks and into the home’s “panic room,” where Dotcom was hiding in apparent fear of a kidnapping or robbery. They seized 18 luxury vehicles. They secured NZ$11 million in cash from bank accounts. And they grabbed a whopping 150 TB of data from Dotcom’s many digital devices.
“It was definitely not as simple as knocking at the front door,” said Detective Inspector Grant Wormald in a police press release at the time.
It was also totally illegal. That’s the ruling of New Zealand High Court judge Helen Winkelmann, who today ripped the “invalid” warrant and the subsequent search and seizure in a 56 page decision.
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