Police Corruption

FBI agents sent cloned copies of computers seized from Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload colleagues offshore just days after a judge said a court needed to decide if the agents were allowed to take the material, a court heard. Dotcom’s lawyer Willy Akel said the FBI agents committed an “illegal act” when they sent the 18 cloned computers and other items to the United States by the courier company Fedex….

Kim Dotcom’s bodyguard appeared in court on firearms charges. Wayne Tempero’s North Shore District Court appearance follows the raid on Dotcom’s Coatesville mansion and subsequent arrest last week. The bodyguard faces one charge of unlawfully possessing a semi-automatic shotgun. He did not enter a plea but through a duty solicitor opposed a media application to photograph him in court. He was remanded on bail until next month. It’s understood he…