Megaupload founder and friend of Julian Assange has offered to provide Congress with written testimony and proof that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was WikiLeaks’ source — if they will include his murder in their Russia investigation.

Kim Dotcom has also now claimed that he was involved in the leak — and that he personally knew Rich.

If Congress includes #SethRich case into their Russia probe I'll give written testimony with evidence that Seth Rich was @Wikileaks source. — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 19, 2017

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“If Congress includes #SethRich case into their Russia probe I’ll give written testimony with evidence that Seth Rich was @Wikileaks source,” Dotcom tweeted on Friday.

Dotcom also accused the DNC of withholding their servers from the FBI because “Seth Rich ain’t Russia!”

Still wonder why the @DNC refused server access to the @FBI to investigate the leaks?#SethRich ain't Russia! — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 19, 2017

Additionally, the tech entrepreneur provided three email addresses that he claims belonged to Rich: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] He urged Google administrators to send the contents of the accounts over to WikiLeaks.

The email addresses lead concerned citizens to track down the Twitter accounts @Panda4Progress and @Pandas4Bernie which are now inactive. In a now deleted tweet, nearly a year after Rich’s death, Andrew Therriault, former DNC Director of Data Science, tagged @Panda4Progress implying that the user is an “embarrassment.”

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Therriault tweeted about Rich multiple times this week, as well as retweeting news articles from liberal news outlets relating to the case.

The Pandas4Bernie account was last active on June 11, less than one month before Rich was murdered. The last tweet on the account was a manifesto about continuing to fight for Senator Bernie Sanders.

On Saturday, Dotcom promised to put out a statement on Tuesday after meeting with his legal team, adding that it “needs to be done properly.” He also asserted once again that Rich was in fact the source — and that he knew him.

I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the @Wikileaks source. I was involved. https://t.co/MbGQteHhZM — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 20, 2017

I'm meeting my legal team on Monday. I will issue a statement about #SethRich on Tuesday. Please be patient. This needs to be done properly. — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 20, 2017

The Russian Embassy in London also weighed in on the murder of Rich on Friday, tweeting that “#WikiLeaks informer Seth Rich murdered in US but MSM [mainstream media] was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice.”

#WikiLeaks informer Seth Rich murdered in US but 🇬🇧 MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice. pic.twitter.com/0XVezTyfHM — Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) May 19, 2017

Rich was murdered early morning hours of July 10, 2016, near his home while he was on the phone with his girlfriend. The police initially ruled that it was a botched robbery — but his wallet, watch, and necklace were still on his person when he was discovered by police. After his death, his girlfriend told a local news station that she believed that it sounded like he was murdered out of anger.

1) Girlfriend said they killed Seth in ANGER ( not robbery )

2) Parents said EMT's were SURPRISED he didn't survive. pic.twitter.com/MO98ZvosWB — Free Your Mind (@AlternativViewz) May 18, 2017

On Thursday, Dotcom provided a list of surveillance cameras that were near the Rich crime scene, which should have been able to offer at least a rough glance at the perpetrator.

Why have murderers of #SethRich not been identified? The crime area is littered with cameras. Several cam locations identified by PI. pic.twitter.com/BlHkiVQcBZ — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 18, 2017

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Assange has previously hinted that Rich may be the leaker, while repeatedly reminding the public that they never comment on their sources. Eyebrows were also raised when WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 reward for information on his killer.

“Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often significant risks. There was a 27-year old that works for the DNC who was shot in the back… murdered.. for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” Assange said during an interview with Dutch TV last year.

At this point the host interjected saying, “that was just a robbery, wasn’t it?”

“No there was no finding,” Assange responded.

When asked what he was suggesting, Assange said, “I am suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.”

“But why make the suggestion?” the interviewer asks.

“Because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States and that our sources face serious risks… that’s why they come to us so we can protect their anonymity,” Assange asserted.

Early Tuesday morning, news broke that former DC homicide detective Rod Wheeler, who was privately investigating the murder, found evidence that the 27-year-old had been communicating with WikiLeaks.

In a bizarre and aggressive statement following Wheeler’s report, Brad Bauman, the spokesman for the Rich family, who just so happens to be a Democratic Party crisis PR consultant, claims that even if an email [to WikiLeaks] was found, it would not be evidence of foul play.

Seth Rich's new "family spokesman" is Brad Bauman a professional Democrat crisis PR consultant with the Pastorum Group. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 11, 2016

“Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so,” Bauman said in a statement.

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Fox News also reported that a federal source confirmed to them that “an FBI forensic report of Rich’s computer — generated within 96 hours after Rich’s murder — showed he made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.”

The investigator specifically told Fox News that 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments were sent from Rich to MacFayden before May 21. That happens to be the exact number included in the leak.

“My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” Wheeler said. “I do believe that the answers to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the DC police or FBI headquarters.”

WikiLeaks retweeted and shared the Fox News report which asserted that Rich was their source. They did not provide additional comment.