Dotcom cleared to pursue a case for damages against the police and the Government's spy agency.

The order signed to suppress the involvement of the GCSB in the Kim Dotcom case was the only one of its kind made in the last decade.

Banks get daily requests from the police for personal banking information, and one says it is influenced by law enforcement interest when it assesses customers.

Kim Dotcom is keen to buy the mansion which the Govt barred him from owning, after details were revealed during a hearing about the internet tycoon's finances.

Planning for the illegal spying mission on Kim Dotcom happened out of earshot of the Government's legal advisers, the Crown Law Office says.

A fresh legal bid to throw out the case against Kim Dotcom in the United States is being made after claims of an FBI double-cross.

Prime Minister John Key says an accusation that he lied about the extent of his knowledge of internet tycoon Kim Dotcom is "just plain wrong".

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully was briefed on the need to seize Kim Dotcom's assets at the time his officials were worried rejecting requests might upset the US.

Kim Dotcom claims he has proof that Prime Minister John Key lied about not knowing who the Megaupload millionaire was until just before the raid on his Coatesville mansion.

A central African country has suspended Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's new website domain www.me.ga.

The Government Communications Security Bureau has reportedly confirmed that knowledge of the surveillance of internet tycoon Kim Dotcom went to the top of the organisation.

Kim Dotcom is proposing free broadband to all New Zealanders as he tries to resurrect the ill-fated Pacific Fibre cable connecting New Zealand to the United States.

The Security Intelligence Service has confirmed its investigation into Kim Dotcom found he posed no security risk to New Zealand.

Senior police have launched an investigation into the Government Communications Security Bureau's illegal spying on Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom, the Green Party says.

Matt McCarten looks at the line between those employed as public servants and their accountabilities.

Police got personal banking details of Kim Dotcom and his staff without getting a search warrant in a move that has implications for bank customers.

Kim Dotcom's bodyguard Wayne Tempero says he suspects he was also a victim of illegal spying in this exclusive interview.

Kim Dotcom has held the first party at his mansion since his arrest, telling 100 entrepreneurs that the case against him was hurting New Zealand's economic success.

Senior lawyer Stuart Grieve QC has been given security clearance and appointed to the Kim Dotcom case.