Dotcom told the newspaper he had accumulated millions of dollars in legal bills and had not been able to pay a single cent. "They just want to hang me out to dry and wait until there is no support left," he said.

Dotcom said he would willingly go to the U.S. if he and his co-defendants were given a guarantee of a fair trial, money to pay for defense and funds to support themselves and their families.

"They will never agree to this and that is because they can't win this case and they know that already," he told the newspaper.

Dotcom and colleagues, and two companies including Megaupload, were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 5, and charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement and money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Dotcom and colleagues Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were arrested in Auckland by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the U.S.