According to section Megaupload arestovali Germans and Estonian

 According to section Megaupload arestovali Germans and Estonian

In Europe, arrested two men declared wanted in connection with an investigation of the unregistered user Megaupload. This is with reference to authorities in New Zealand reports Reuters.
39-year-old German Sven Echternach (Sven Echternach), was detained in Germany. By German law Echternach can not be extradited to the authorities of another country, the authorities said in a statement. A second detainee was a 32-year-old Estonian Andrus Nomm (Andrus Nomm), who was arrested in the Netherlands.
The detainees are accused of internet piracy and money laundering. In the search is still Benko Julius (Julius Bencko) from Slovakia.
Tools Megaupload closed on January 19 by an international security operation. The company Megaupload located in Hong Kong, its the server - in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and the leaders of the resource, in particular, its founder, Kim dotcom lived in New Zealand, where they were detained. During the arrest dotcom hiding in a room with a loaded shotgun, points to The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. authorities require the issuance of the dot-com and accused him of receiving $ 175 million from the illegal activities of the resource. Protecting the head Megaupload insists on his innocence, claiming that the resource is only used for file storage.
However, the indictment of U.S. prosecutors argued that the service workers were aware of illegal content, downloadable by its users, but did not undertake efforts to remove it.
Following the closure of the movement Megaupload hackers Anonymous staged the biggest, they say, an attack on the FBI site, U.S. Department of Justice, the White House and a number of companies-owners. As a result of the attack some of the resources at the time were destroyed.
Shortly before closing Megaupload online service under the company's employees as the executive director has been given musician Swizz Beatz. After his arrest, he told MTV, that this information was published prematurely. However, he does not deny his relationship with Megaupload, although stressed that his name is not mentioned in the list of defendants.
Swizz Beatz shot the video in support of Megaupload, released in December 2011. It also was attended by such musicians as Will.I.am, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and others.