Megaupload coders avoid 10-year sentences by testifying against Kim Dotcom
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/megaupload-coders-get-light-sentences-will-testify-against-kim-dotcom/
Two Megaupload coders were sentenced to prison in New Zealand yesterday after pleading guilty to fraud and promising to testify against former Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Mathias Ortmann, a former chief technology officer who held 25 percent of Megaupload shares, was sentenced to two years and seven months. Bram van der Kolk, who led Megaupload software programming and held 2.5 percent of Megaupload shares, was sentenced to two years and six months.