Editing Kim Dotcom (section)

=== Thailand ===
Dotcom moved to [[Thailand]] to avoid investigation,<ref name="investigate"/> but was arrested there at the request of the German embassy. In response, he allegedly pretended to kill himself online and declared through his website that he wished to be known as "His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire".<ref name="fastcompany.com"/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/kim-dotcom/ |magazine=Wired |first=Sean |last=Gallagher |title=The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom |date=26 January 2012 |access-date=15 January 2023 |archive-date=27 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127000449/http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/kim-dotcom/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He was [[deported]] back to Germany where he pleaded guilty to [[embezzlement]] in November 2003 and, after five months in jail awaiting trial, again received a [[suspended sentence]], this time of 20 months.<ref name=":6">[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_15/b3878157_mz035.htm Luring German Investors Back Into The Pool] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419175117/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_15/b3878157_mz035.htm |date=19 April 2012 }}, ''[[Business Week]]'', 12 April 2004.</ref> After avoiding a prison sentence for a second time, he left Germany and moved to Hong Kong in late 2003.<ref name="investigate"/>