Kim Dotcom: A troubled tale of global policing and intelligence

• In Event: Police Intelligence and Forensics

Abstract

In early 2012, 76 heavily armed New Zealand police raided the home of Kim Dotcom, operator of the online subscription file sharing site Megaupload. This case led to considerable legal activity in New Zealand regarding the legality of the raid and the seizure of 'evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of ... crimes being investigated' by United States enforcement agents for alleged violations of federal criminal copyright provisions. This case highlights several 'global policing' and 'extra-territorial' enforcement issues that are discussed in terms of the tensions between competing sovereign justice and human rights requirements, and the growing convergence of criminal evidence and intelligence sharing arrangements to combat transnational crime.

Authors

• Darren Palmer, Deakin University

• Ian James Muir Warren, Deakin University