Career

After closing down his webdesign company www.pixelhood.com (2001 - 2005) based in Slovakia, Július joined Kim Dotcom in 2006 as a Graphic Director of the Megaupload.com and other Mega-affiliated cyberlocker sites. He also obtained a 2.5% share in the Megaupload Limited. holding company, held through Basemax International Limited., where Benčko is the sole shareholder and appointed director On January 5, 2012, Benčko was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, United States of America and charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiration to commit copyright infringement and money laundering along with Kim Dotcom and 5 other associates.

While Dotcom, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were arrested on January 20, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, Benčko and two others remain at large.

Benčko faces a maximum penalty of 190 years in prison, if found guilty on all charges in the alleged

Since the shutdown of Megaupload by United States authorities, Julius Bencko has restarted com with a focus on video production, photography and other forms of digital art