Megaupload: Kim Dotcom describes his strange prison encounters in New Zealand court

Government agents?

Dotcom has already had unwanted approaches from a forger, a fake prosecutor and various female inmates wanting to be pen pals

Source: Liberty Confidential

During a failed appeal against a decision last week refusing bail, Kim Dotcom gave details of his arrest, and discussed some of his strange prison experiences.

Also known as Kim Schmitz, Dotcom has had approaches from a phony prosecutor promising to get him out of prison, a forger offering to help him get back to Germany upon release from prison, and numerous female inmates wanting to be penpals.

Dotcom also explained why he fled to the panic room of the rented mansion, answered questions about the pistol that was in the room with him, and disputed claims made by police that he resisted arrest.

Dotcom said he fled to his panic room because he heard the noise of the police storming the mansion, but did not know who it was or what was happening. He also explained that the “Red Room” had a safe with a pistol loaded with rubber bullets, but he made no effort to take it out and did not know how to use it.

Instead, he waited until police found him sitting on the floor behind a pillar. “I didn’t want to pop out of a door and be shot,” he told the High Court in Auckland. “I was scared.”

“Not once did they say they were police,” he testified. “They had civilian clothes on. The only things that I saw were flack jackets with a lot of pistols and automatic weapons.”

Dotcom also denied police claims that he had resisted arrest, saying he was punched in the face by cops while “one guy was standing on my hand. It was bleeding.”

He charged that the police used excessive force: “I was punched in the face. I was kicked down on the floor. One guy was standing on my hand so my nail was ruptured and my hand was bleeding. It was quite aggressive.”

Dotcom promises that he intends to stay and fight the U.S. government, which has seized all his money and business assets without any due process whatsoever.

A judge has said Dotcom posed a “significant” flight risk.

Dotcom told the court: “I’m aware that if I go to Germany I would be unable to un-freeze my assets. What I want to do is stay here to fight and get my money back. What would I do in Germany with five kids and a wife with no money? It is not an option for me.”

A government lawyer said a man known to have forged travel documents had tried to visit Dotcom in prison, but Dotcom stated that he had never heard of the person, and wouldn’t accept such offers. “If people were to approach me and to offer such a service, I would tell them to go to hell,” he said. “I have no desire to run away.”

He was also contacted by a man pretending to be a court prosecutor, who claimed to be able to help him win his bail appeal.

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