Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been arrested in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Svartholm, known online by his nickname Anakata, was sentenced to one year in jail for his involvement in The Pirate Bay but has been missing for some time. Svartholm was wanted internationally but exact details as to why he was arrested have not yet been made public.

gottfridPirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago.

According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront, a place where he is known to have stayed in the past.

Neither Cambodian nor Swedish authorities have commented on the grounds of the arrest.

The 27-year-old became wanted internationally after he failed to return to Sweden to serve his 12 month jail sentence earlier this year.

Gottfrid’s lawyer Ola Salomonsson thinks the arrest could be related to The Pirate Bay case, but this hasn’t been announced officially.

“As far as I understand it is because he is on an international wanted list,” he said.

While there is no extradition treaty between Cambodia and Sweden the lawyer believes his client could be transferred to his home country eventually.

Gottfrid has been battling poor health ever since The Pirate Bay appeal in 2010. He failed to attend that hearing due to an illness which left him too sick to leave hospital in Cambodia.

Then, despite having supported his original absence with a medical certificate, Gottfrid failed to appear at a subsequent hearing. This prompted the Court of Appeal to finalize the initial verdict of one year jail time and a fine of $1.1 million.

All this time the Pirate Bay founder was nowhere to be found. Neither his lawyer nor his old Pirate Bay friends had heard from him. Sources in Cambodia, however, told TorrentFreak last year that Gottfrid was still in bad shape.

Gottfrid should have returned to Sweden to begin serving his sentence January 2nd this year, but again he failed to appear.

Pirate Bay founder arrested in Cambodia after evading cops for eight months

Gottfrid Svartholm, The Pirate Bay founder better known online as Anakata, has been arrested in a riverfront apartment in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.

He has been wanted internationally ever since January, when he failed to appear in Sweden to serve a 12-month prison sentence.

So far, neither Cambodian nor Swedish authorities have issued public statements about the charges Svartholm now faces; we’ll update this post as more information becomes available.

Svartholm has been in significant legal trouble since 2006, when Swedish police first raided The Pirate Bay, a torrent site, for copyright violations.

In January 2008, Svartholm and Pirate Bay cohorts Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström were charged with promoting others’ infringement of copyright, a conviction of which could lead to up to to years in jail and huge restitution fines.

In April 2009, the four were convicted as accessories to copyright crime and sentenced to one year in prison each. They were also ordered to pay around $3.5 million (30 million Swedish kronor) in damages.

While the other three Pirate Bay folks appealed and saw their prison time reduced (but their fines increased), Svartholm did not appeal. His window of time to appeal ran out in October 2011, and he was supposed to show up in Sweden January 2012 to start serving his year behind bars. Since failing to do so, he has been wanted internationally.

The 2006 raid, 2009 trial, and other events caused a storm of online activity, much of it retaliatory DDoS attacks and protests in support of The Pirate Bay team. While it remains the target of legal action, The Pirate Bay remains up and running and recently issued a statement reading, “We’re staying put where we are. We’re going nowhere. But we have a message to Hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.”

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-f...mbodia-120901/
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/01/pi...nder-arrested/
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0...ted-cambdodia/

semoga Gottfrid Svartholm selalu diberi pelindungan...