EXCLUSIVE: Accused hacker Kim Dotcom says he will testify that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich passed documents to Wikileaks under the internet moniker ‘Panda’ – IF the Justice Department cuts him a deal
Mega-upload founder Kim Dotcom’s lawyers have written a letter to the DOJ asking for him to be allowed to testify about Seth Rich’s murder without being detained
The New Zealand resident faces extradition to the US where he faces a slew of charges including copyright infringement and money laundering
His lawyer told DailyMail.com Dotcom is not trying to get his charges dismissed in exchange for the testimony
Dotcom claims he spoke to someone he believed to be Rich who spoke of plans to leak DNC documents
He claims Rich first contacted him online in 2014, using the internet moniker ‘Panda’ – known to be the DNC staffer’s favorite animal.
Rich’s family dismissed Dotcom’s claims when he didn’t provide proof when they asked for documentation of the exchange
By ALANA GOODMAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
2 June 2017
Tech mogul and accused fraudster Kim Dotcom is seeking to cut a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice in exchange for his verbal testimony claiming that slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks last summer.
Dotcom – the Mega-upload founder and New Zealand resident who is facing fraud and racketeering charges in the United States – offered to meet with the U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday. He claims to have evidence that Rich, not the Russian government, was behind the DNC email leak last summer.
Dotcom has yet to provide evidence of his allegations, which are fueling internet theories that Rich’s unsolved shooting death in Washington, D.C. last July may have been a political assassination. Police believe the 27-year-old was likely killed during an armed robbery gone wrong.
Dotcom is asking the feds to promise not to detain him if he travels to the United States to give testimony about Rich. He is currently facing U.S. extradition from his home in New Zealand on a litany of unrelated charges, including copyright infringement and money laundering.
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