Kim Dotcom was known for a love of fraud, excess and waste, as suggested by this graphic:

Here is the original image, not far off from the graphic above. License plates on his numerous luxury cars used terms like MAFIA, GOD and POLICE.

Obviously he had a reputation for megalomania and making things seem much more impressive than reality, including boasting about his own skill and intelligence.

“I’m smarter than Bill Gates,” he said.

He may as well have said he was more dangerous than Bill Gates. His insider trading and embezzlement in Germany, which did significant damage to the industry, led some to criticize the authorities for a lack of serious enforcement.

…the few nights in a Thai jail turned out to be the worst of it, as fears of prison in Germany were unfounded—he was sentenced to 20 months probation and slapped with a €100,000 fine. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges over the Monkey “loan” and received another two years of probation.

After the law’s repeated lashes with a wet noodle, Schmitz left Germany and moved to Hong Kong to start the next level of Mega-insanity.

Now a video of the raid by 76 police of his 25,000-sq-ft mansion has been released by the NZ authorities.

Some critics of the raid, including Kim Dotcom himself, center on the idea that security precautions to locate and seize the self-titled MAFIA, GOD and POLICE were excessive and wasteful.