News report # 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.. **Source type:** News report **Published:** June 15, 2023 **Research grade:** S1 **Used in entries:** 3 ## Bibliographic record **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](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 ## Research notes - 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. How this source is used Cited 3 times across 1 record type. The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards. Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here. ## Cited by ### Legal actions against people 3 citations Cited for a recorded legal action against a named person. - [Bram van der Kolk](https://takedownindex.org/people/bram-van-der-kolk) Sentenced, Megaupload seizure Later outcome - [Mathias Ortmann](https://takedownindex.org/people/mathias-ortmann) Pleaded guilty, Megaupload seizure Later outcome - [Mathias Ortmann](https://takedownindex.org/people/mathias-ortmann) Sentenced, Megaupload seizure Later outcome [All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)