Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom and his family have been granted a $60,000 a month living allowance.
In a minute released today by Justice Judith Potter in the High Court at Auckland, she allowed $20,000 a month to be paid to Dotcom from interest on $10 million worth of Government Bonds.
A second monthly payment of $40,000 is to come from his Rabobank account, which currently has $301,758.70 in it.
Dotcom was also given back the use of his 2011 Mercedes Benz but he has to arrange insurance and garaging of the car.
The US Government is seeking to extradite Dotcom and three New Zealand-based associates on charges including copyright infringement and wire fraud relating to the file-sharing website Megaupload - in what prosecutors allege was a "mega conspiracy''.
