The co-founder of The Pirate Bay filesharing website was on Friday detained in Sweden, days after his deportation from Cambodia, officials said.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, faces a one-year prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement in his home country.

“The person who was recently arrested in Cambodia, suspected of hacking computer data provider Logica, was placed in detention today (Friday),” said the Swedish public prosecutor’s office in a statement.

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Warg was arrested in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on August 30 at Stockholm’s behest and expelled late on Monday.

Two others were also suspects in the case, the statement added.

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay — which boasts more than 30 million users — makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.

Warg was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Swedish court in 2009 for promoting copyright infringement but failed to show up to serve his term at the start of this year.

Warg’s fellow co-founders of the popular site, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, as well as key financier Carl Lundstroem all had their 12-month sentences reduced to between four and 10 months on appeal in late 2010.

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They were also ordered to pay a total of 46 million kronor ($6.9 million) in damages for copyright infringement to the music and movie industry.

But Warg did not attend his appeal hearing and his sentence was upheld, followed by an international warrant for his arrest.

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