Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the Swedish co-founder of the popular torrenting website Pirate Bay, is set to be deported from Cambodia.
Cambodian police officials said on Tuesday last week that the recently arrested Swedish hacker would be sent out of the Southeast Asian country as a result of Swedish authorities presenting court documents in Phnom Penh this week. However, where Warg will be sent has not yet been revealed, as the two countries do not currently have an extradition contract.
Cambodian police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told reporters, “We will deport him based on our immigration law. We just know we will deport him. As to which country, that would be up to the Swedish side,” the BBC reports.
The news comes nearly three years after Warg and fellow Pirate Bay figureheads Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundstroem and Peter Sunde were convicted in Stockholm of promoting copyright violations. Sunde, Lundstroem and Neij all received reduced jail sentences of 10 months or less and copyright infringement fines of USD 7 million (EUR 5.6 million) in an appeal hearing.
Meanwhile, Mr Warg never attended his hearing and later fled the country. He was arrested on Tuesday (3 September) in the Cambodian capital at the request of Swedish authorities.
No date has yet been set for deportation, according to reports.