What followed was an inevitable appeal by Dotcom, in this case an application for judicial review of the Minister of Justice’s decision. They appear here heavily summarized with additional detail available in the 59-page High Court decision linked below. Due to a civil forfeiture order in the United States, Dotcom will not be able to fund his defense there, his submission added. The United States prosecution was not brought in good faith or in the interests of justice, but was politically motivated. Claims that local charges were denied to appease the United States lacked “evidentiary foundation.”6.