The Dutch programmer and network administrator of MegaUpload may in New Zealand on bail to be released. That the court in that country on Thursday decided. It takes another week before he is truly free.
The judge in New Zealand has decided the Dutchman Bram van der K. on bail, free to leave after paying the deposit, but it can still take up to a week before he was actually out of custody, because the police borgadressen still need to check. In addition to Van der K. also has the German colleague Finn Batato have been told that he is out on bail, is released. Another German, Mathias Ortmann, remains in custody. Van der K., was last week arrested because of his work for the file-sharingsite MegaUpload. The site is by the US, among other things accused of facilitating auteursrechteninbreuk and money laundering. Workers would participate in a criminal organisation.
The Dutch programmer should at the moment no devices use or possession which he on the internet, so has the court, according to the New Zealand newspaper NZ Herald decided. Next week Thursday should be of K. together with Batato report to the ministry of justice in the country.
Wednesday was the founder of MegaUpload, Kim Dotcom, of the court to hear that he won’t be free. The New Zealand court assessed him as “vluchtgevaarlijk’, because he has enough money and false identity documents would be available to the country to be able to escape. The US asks for extradition of all the defendants.