It was bound to happen sooner or later: Kim Dotcom has finally sued the New Zealand government over its admittedly illegal spying against him and the subsequent raid on his house. (A New Zealand Court granted him the right to sue earlier this year.)

In court documents published for the first time this week by the New Zealand Herald, Dotcom lays out his case with many new details. In the unsealed filing, Dotcom and his fellow plaintiffs are seeking NZ$8.55 million ($6.9 million) in damages.

Last month, Dotcom alleged that the Five Eyes spy network—comprising signals intelligence spy agencies from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and most notably, the United States—was used against him.

“The Prime Minister of New Zealand declined an independent inquiry into illegal spying,” Dotcom told Ars on Friday morning. “Now my court case will uncover the truth about the [Government Communications Security Bureau] using X-Keyscore, Prism, and the Five Eyes spy cloud to spy on New Zealanders. The truth will come out.”

Dotcom says he did not resist

The Megaupload founder notes in his statement that an affidavit by a New Zealand financial crimes detective filed in support of the search warrant to conduct the January 2012 raid on Dotcom’s mansion made no reference to the fact that he had already been under surveillance by the GCSB, New Zealand’s equivalent to the National Security Agency “since at least December 16, 2011.”

Further, there were two other clever tactics that the NZ authorities used to observe Dotcom.

The first and second plaintiff’s property being under surveillance by way of a camera installed by [Organized and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand, or OFCANZ] on an adjacent or nearby property. A hidden pencam being used or was about to be used by Senior Constable Homan when he visited the Mahoenui Valley property on January 19, 2012, and that no search warrant had been obtained for this search.

The document mainly describes the raid in detail, which involved “Special Tactics Group and Armed Offenders Squad personnel” who arrived via two helicopters and vans. They didn’t knock at the house, but forcibly broke down doors and handcuffed Dotcom’s own unarmed security staff. Dotcom himself was “forced to the ground and had force applied to him in such a way that left him with bruises and abrasions. This was not precipitated by any resistance from the first plaintiff to the Police.”

About two months later, New Zealand police sent “images/clones of 19 seized items out of New Zealand” to US authorities.

In the police’s “statement of defense,” they expressly deny the allegations concerning the unlawful use of force and Dotcom’s characterization of the raid. The police also admit that the GCSB did conduct interception of communications of “some or all of the plaintiffs at the request of OFCANZ, and that “clones of some electronic items” were sent to the US. They deny nearly all of the rest of Dotcom’s allegations.