New Zealand police will have to return any digital material not related to his prosecution seized during a raid on internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s mansion, a judge has ruled.
The decision by High Court chief judge Helen Winkelmann follows a
ruling last year that the January 2012 raid on Megaupload
founder, Dotcom’s Auckland mansion was illegal because the search
warrants used were too broad to be considered reasonable.
Digital material such as computer hard drives were taken in the
dawn swoop as part of a US probe into allegations of massive
online piracy by Dotcom’s now-defunct Megaupload empire.
Winkelmann ordered police to review all the material, at their
own expense, to identify material that was irrelevant to the
prosecution case, then return it to Dotcom.
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This article originally appeared on: RT