Kim Dotcom still owes his former lawyers for legal fees, including now High Court Judge Paul Davison, but relations between former client and former lawyers remain cordial, he says.
Dotcom lost his fight at District Court level against extradition this week, still owes Paul Davison QC $600,000 and his Simpson Grierson $1.4 million according to a Radio NZ report.
But the lawyers have already received about $10 million the former internet mogul told Radio New Zealand “so I don’t think they have much to complaint about.”
Dotcom has left his Coatsville mansion to take up residence at Auckland’s Princes Wharf and his living costs and other matters were the subject of issues in a recent court hearing that sought the release of frozen funds.
Dotcom’s estranged wife lives next door to the mansion with their children.
The recent Hong Kong court judgement gave him $US80,000 a month in living expenses from a pool of $US50 million of frozen funds, and access to the same pool of funds to meet his future legal costs.
Radio NZ reported that the court refused to grant him access to the money to pay his former lawyers, Paul Davison QC and the law firm Simpson Grierson.
“There’s something in the pipeline which will hopefully see them paid at some stage early in the new year.”
He would not elaborate, but said relations were still cordial.
“They made close to $10 million so I don’t think they have much to complain about.”
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