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2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

The Associated Press, June 15, 2023. The New Zealand disposal against Mathias Ortmann: his 2022 guilty plea under the deal struck with New Zealand and United States prosecutors that ended his extradition fight, and his 15 June 2023 prison sentence in the High Court at Auckland alongside co-defendant Bram van der Kolk - the pair of person_actions pa_megaupload_ortmann_plea_nz and pa_megaupload_ortmann_sentenced_nz on td_2012_megaupload..

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News report
Published
June 15, 2023
Research grade
S1
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Publisher
The Associated Press
Published
June 15, 2023
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S1
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-megaupload-pirating-website-sentence-a858f2a77b4eebf912711e818d6400f5
What it supports
The New Zealand disposal against Mathias Ortmann: his 2022 guilty plea under the deal struck with New Zealand and United States prosecutors that ended his extradition fight, and his 15 June 2023 prison sentence in the High Court at Auckland alongside co-defendant Bram van der Kolk - the pair of person_actions pa_megaupload_ortmann_plea_nz and pa_megaupload_ortmann_sentenced_nz on td_2012_megaupload.
Dataset id
src_ap_megaupload_sentencing_2023

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  • Byline Nick Perry. schema.org datePublished 2023-06-15T08:34:06Z, dateModified 2023-06-15T08:40:29Z.
  • apnews.com is blocked to the fetch tool used here; the page was retrieved directly with a browser user-agent and the headline, byline and dates read from its schema.org metadata.

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