Sven Echternach
No alias recorded
Charged
Public record reviewed to August 21, 2026
Index entry last updated August 21, 2026
Alleged megaupload principal or employee.
Every charge in this entry is an allegation. No conviction is recorded.
- Named defendant in the Megaupload indictment.
Everything on this page comes from cited public sources.
This entry records 1 action across 1 takedown, each traced to a cited source. At least one linked takedown was added in the extended pass and was not independently source verified. Where the record is silent, this page says so rather than filling the gap.
Legal summary
- Associated takedowns
- Megaupload seizure
- Recorded role
- Megaupload principal or employee
- Group segment
- Core operator
- Charging authority
- United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Charging jurisdiction
- Not recorded
- Case number
- 1:12-cr-00003-LO
- Latest recorded action
- Charged, January 2012
- Nationality
- Not established
- Country of residence
- Not established
Charges
Counts named in the public charging documents for this person, with the authority that brought them.
A charge is an accusation. No count on this page has been tested at trial by the fact of appearing here.
No charging document in this entry names an individual count. Where an authority has confirmed a charge without publishing the counts, the count list stays empty rather than being guessed at.