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Former Megaupload Executives Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison

TorrentFreak, June 15, 2023. The New Zealand sentencing of Bram van der Kolk to 2 years 6 months and Mathias Ortmann to 2 years 7 months by Justice Sally Fitzgerald in the High Court at Auckland on 15 June 2023, their June 2022 guilty pleas entered under the deal that ended the United States extradition proceedings, and the deferral of the start of both sentences to 1 August 2023..

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Published
June 15, 2023
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S2
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TorrentFreak
Published
June 15, 2023
Source type
News report
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Source grade S2
Language
English
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Not an official publication
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https://torrentfreak.com/former-megaupload-executives-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-prison-230615/
What it supports
The New Zealand sentencing of Bram van der Kolk to 2 years 6 months and Mathias Ortmann to 2 years 7 months by Justice Sally Fitzgerald in the High Court at Auckland on 15 June 2023, their June 2022 guilty pleas entered under the deal that ended the United States extradition proceedings, and the deferral of the start of both sentences to 1 August 2023.
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  • Byline Andy Maxwell. schema.org datePublished 2023-06-15T13:47:11+00:00; dateModified 2023-06-16.
  • This is the source in the pair that carries the sentencing judge and the 1 August 2023 deferred start; the RNZ report of the same day carries neither.

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