#2 Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz

Company: Megaupload

Date captured: Jan. 21, 2012

Kim Schmitz, also known as Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, and Kim Dotcom, is a German born Internet entrepreneur, currently residing in New Zealand. As a teenager, Schmitz acquired a reputation in his native Germany after being convicted of bypassing the security of NASA, the Pentagon and Citibank under the name of Kimble – based on the character of Dr Richard Kimble in the long running television programme The Fugitive.

He is the founder of Megaupload and its associated websites. On 20 January 2012, the New Zealand Police placed him in custody in response to US charges of criminal copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload website. Dotcom was accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his file-sharing site, which had 180 million registered users. Dotcom has vigorously denied the charges, and is fighting the attempt to extradite him to the United States.

New Zealand police raided the file-sharing kingpin’s mansion and arrested Schmitz (along with three other Megaupload executives) a day before his 38th birthday. Ironically, Dotcom is planning on launching a new online storage service called Mega in January 2013.

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