The Kim Dotcom saga is a national embarrassment - Deborah Chambers

Opinion byNZ Herald·2 Aug, 2026 03:00 AM7 mins to readLady Deborah Chambers is a New Zealand King's Counsel practising in Auckland.‌Kim Dotcom's appeal to the Court of Appeal against extradition failed. And still the process grinds on. In the lower left image Dotcom is flanked by Bram van der Kolk (left) and Mathias Ortmann who have pleaded guilty and served time in NZ. On the right of that image is Finn Batato who died in 2022.The Kim Dotcom saga should be a source of deep shame to New Zealanders. To successive governments who failed to fix the legislation. To our courts. And to every New Zealander who believes this country can run a competent extradition system. Fourteen years. That is how long it has taken