Cambodian authorities to deport Pirate Bay co-founder

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (L) and Peter Sundin from Pirate Bay in Stockholm, on February 15, 2009, give their views on the eve of their trial. Cambodian authorities have agreed to deport Warg from the country today. Photograph: AFP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Fredrik Persson

Tuesday, 04 September 2012
Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post

Cambodian authorities have agreed to deport Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg from the country in the immediate future, the deputy police commissioner confirmed today.

General Sok Phal said he met with Swedish authorities this morning and, due to the lack of an extradition treaty between the two kingdoms, Sweden requested the deportation of Svartholm Warg.

“We will use the Immigration Law against him to deport him out of our country and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng will sign on the deportation request letter from the police commissioner soon,” Phal told the Post.

“We will have to just deport him, wherever he goes, we don’t know, but he has to be out of Cambodia,” Phal added.

Svartholm Warg was arrested last Thursday by Cambodian authorities last Thursday at the behest of Sweden, which has an international arrest warrant out for its citizen, and is currently being detained at the Ministry of Interior’s immigration department.

Svartholm Warg was convicted in 2009 of illegal filesharing through his bittorrent website.