Kim Dotcom (born
Kim Schmitz; 21 January 1974), also known as
Kimble and
Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet
entrepreneur, businessman, musician, and political party founder who resides in
New Zealand. He first rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a self-proclaimed teenage internet entrepreneur. In 1994 he received a two year suspended sentence for computer
fraud and data
espionage because he was underage, and received a similar sentence in 2003 for
insider trading and
embezzlement.