Biography kim dotcom house nz
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Coatesville mansion
Mansion in Coatsville, New Zealand
Coatesville mansion, originally known as Chrisco mansion, then Dotcom mansion, and lately Mahoenui Valley, is a mansion in Coatesville north of Auckland in New Zealand. It is one of the country's most expensive houses.
History
[edit]The house was built in [1] in Coatesville for Richard Bradley,[2] who is known for owning the company "Chrisco" that sells Christmas hampers in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Canada.[3]
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom rented the house from for NZ$1 million per year. The mansion became well known through the police raid on Dotcom carried out on 20 January ; much video footage was made available to the media, showing the police swooping in with helicopters to arrest Dotcom and some of his business partners. Dotcom vacated the property in December and claimed that he had paid NZ$9 million for improvements.[4]
After Dotcom left,
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Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
Kim Dotcom | |
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Dotcom in | |
| Born | Kim Schmitz () 21 January (age51)[1] Kiel, West Germany |
| Nationality | |
| Othernames | Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Education | Middle school |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Yearsactive | –present |
| Knownfor | Founder and CEO of Megaupload, Mega and |
| Height | 2m (6ft 7in)[2] |
| Political party | Internet Party (–) |
| Criminal charges | Computer fraud, data espionage, embezzlement |
| Criminal penalty | Two-year suspended sentence, Five months served and twenty months suspended sentence |
| Spouses | Mona Verga (m.; div.)Elizabeth Donnelly |
| Children | 6 |
| Website | |
Kim Dotcom (néSchmitz;[3] born 21 January ), also known as Kimble[4] and Kim Tim Jim Vestor,[5] is a Finnish-German Internet entrepreneur a
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Kim Dotcom has moved out of the sprawling Auckland mansion that was the centre of the armed raid in which he was arrested in
Kim Dotcom's mansion in Coatesville in January Photo: AFP
The internet entrepreneur, who is waiting on a district court decision as to whether he should be extradited to the United States, will take up residence in an apartment on Princes Wharf from today.
He has also confirmed to RNZ he still owes about $2 million in outstanding legal fees to his former New Zealand lawyers.
Mr Dotcom began renting the mansion in Coatesville, north of Auckland, in at a cost of $1 million a year.
However, the ongoing cost of his legal battle to stay in New Zealand had forced him to downgrade his accommodation to a mere four-bedroom penthouse overlooking Waitemata harbour.
The FBI wants to bring Mr Dotcom and three other men to the US to face charges of copyright infringement, racketeering and money-laundering over their file-sharing website, Megaupload.
Mr Dotcom ran