The seizure of the property of MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom is according to a New Zealand court carried out a court order that never issued has been allowed to be. Dotcom may receive his possessions back.
On January 19, the police arrested in New Zealand, at the request of the US MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, as well as three other suspects. In the house of Dotcom were, among other money, several expensive cars, art works and other valuable property confiscated. It was also the MegaUpload site offline. In total represent the property and bank accounts seized an estimated value of $ 200 million, the equivalent of some 125 million euro.
According to judge Judith Potter is the seizure of property from Dotcom, however, is performed with an incorrect court order that never issued should not be, reports NZ Herald. In this order got Dotcom is not entitled to first register in a hearing to defend prior to the seizure was passed. The court declared the decree ” null and void and invalid.” The Public Ministry of New Zealand acknowledges that there is a vormfout is made at the request of a court order, but states that it is for the court to demand a corrected application for an order for possession will be submitted to.
You may get Dotcom, currently on bail, his possessions back after the ruling of the court; his defense will, however, likely need to make it purposefully with an incorrect court order, proceeded to the seizure, since the law in New Zealand only offers space to recover form errors. The judge will be here in the short term, a ruling is about to do.