Kim DotCom: SnapShot of Megaupload CEO
Who is Kim DotCom?
The figure of the hunted was named Kim Schmitz alias Kimble alias Kim Dotcom Tim Jim Vestor. The hunting for two years madethe FBI asks Interpol to help scooping up Kim Dotcom, CEO and founder of Megaupload Ltd a company manage file host sharing in internet www.megaupload.com in north Auckland, New Zealand. File host sharing site itself was closed U.S. Department of Justice, Thursday, January 19, 2012.
Kim Dotcom was arrested for allegedly facilitating the practice of piracy and copyright theft. Kim Dotcom’s action, according to the United States Department of Justice, has made Kim Dotcom and his team, earned a profit of up to 175 million U.S. dollars or about. Kim Dotcom action also makes the copyright holders in the United States lost 500 million U.S. dollars.
Then who the real Kim Dotcom? Born in Kiel, Germany, Dotcom – which became known as Schmitz – known figure of the intelligent and talented boy. Since childhood, Kim Dotcom liked to make copies of games and sell them to hisschool friends.
Once Kim Dotcom knows the internet, as quoted by German newspaper Die Welt, Schmitz was able to rip off the computer. Since then, the action begins as hackers. Kim Dotcom had ever broke Pentagon and NASA security network. Even he had time to observe the satellite in real time from the Palace of Saddam Hussein during the Persian Gulf war. Kim Dotcom also hack the security of many major banks and fabricate a lot of credit card transactions. Action that makes Schmitz Munich languishing in prison, nearly two years.
In 1998, when he out from prison, Kim Dotcom founded a computer security services and venture capital investments through the Kimvestor Company. At that time, as reported by the German magazine Der Spiegel, Kim Dotcom had boasted he would rival Bill Gates as world’s richest man. “I’m smarter than Bill Gates,” he said.
In 2001, Kim Dotcom imprisoned again after a successful insider trading in the online business site letsbuyit.com. As a result of that action, Kim Dotcom made more than $ 1 million shares soaring. Kim Dotcom fled to Thailand finally extradited and court sentencing trial, 20 months and a fine of 100 thousand euros.
After that, there are no sound about Kim Dotcom anymore, until authorities tracked him down in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Schmitz had just moved to New Zealand in 2005, married and has three children.
Kim Dotcom and his family moved into a mansion worth $ 24 million. He invested a minimum of US$ 8M in New Zealand for the sake of getting a permanent resident. Kim Dotcom Bought dozens of luxury cars and cars with the name plate as he want.
Kim Dotcom also donate $ 500 thousand to buy fireworks for the celebration of new year 2012. When flowers burst ati, Kim Dotcom brought his wife and children to enjoyed the fireworks from their personal helicopter.
Again all the glitz and the action ended last week. When dozens of police arrest Kim Dotcom and confiscated all his wealth.
