{"id":37723,"date":"2013-05-31T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nz-cops-ordered-to-return-dotcom-possessions-seized-in-raid\/37723\/"},"modified":"2013-05-31T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:56:12","slug":"nz-cops-ordered-to-return-dotcom-possessions-seized-in-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nz-cops-ordered-to-return-dotcom-possessions-seized-in-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ cops ordered to return Dotcom possessions seized in raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i class=\"border-bg\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"content p-page\">\n    <!-- crumbs --><br \/>\n    <!--\/\/ crumbs --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wp\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp-mid\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp\">\n<p>New Zealand police will have to return any digital material not related to his prosecution seized during a raid on internet mogul Kim Dotcom\u2019s mansion, a judge has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>\n  The decision by High Court chief judge Helen Winkelmann follows a<br \/>\n  ruling last year that the January 2012 raid on Megaupload<br \/>\n  founder, Dotcom&#8217;s Auckland mansion was illegal because the search<br \/>\n  warrants used were too broad to be considered reasonable.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Digital material such as computer hard drives were taken in the<br \/>\n  dawn swoop as part of a US probe into allegations of massive<br \/>\n  online piracy by Dotcom&#8217;s now-defunct Megaupload empire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Winkelmann ordered police to review all the material, at their<br \/>\n  own expense, to identify material that was irrelevant to the<br \/>\n  prosecution case, then return it to Dotcom.\n  <\/p>\n<p>DETAILS TO FOLLOW.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- \/\/ comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!--\/\/ content-wp -->\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <!--\/\/ content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/\/ aside --><\/p>\n<div class=\"main-footer clearfix\">\n<p class=\"copyright\">\u00a9 Autonomous Nonprofit Organization \u201cTV-Novosti\u201d, 2005\u20142013. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/kim-dotcom-police-return-038\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NZ cops ordered to return Dotcom possessions seized in raid\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police will have to return any digital material not related to his prosecution seized during a raid on internet mogul Kim Dotcom\u2019s 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&#8217;s Auckland mansion was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}