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Gottfrid Warg, who co-founded the controversial file sharing torrent site, The Pirate Bay, was recently sentenced to two years in prison. Warg was charged and convicted with acting on illegal money transfers on-line and hacking into a Sweden-based computer system that stored and managed data for Swedish authorities.

Warg, who was convicted of hacking into the Internet technology company Logica along with the Nordea Bank, had a previous conviction from 2009 for Internet piracy. He was extradited from Cambodia back to Sweden in 2012 where he was to serve a one-year jail term. Upon Warg’s incarceration, he was charged with more highly elaborate cyber-crimes.

The court, which is in the Nacka district of Sweden, said in a recent statement that Warg’s hacking was highly ingenious and very extensive. They also claim that he successfully hacked into some very highly sensitive data systems.

The prosecution in the case says that Warg was able to transfer just over $4,000 (U.S.) and was also trying to move to what amounted to just under $1 million (U.S.) but never succeeded in doing so.

To make matters worse for the 28-year-old, the Swedish court ruled that Denmark had the lawful right to have him extradited where he is wanted for other offenses.

On Tuesday, June 18th, a Swedish court ruled that Warg could be extradited to Denmark, where he will face several charges ranging from stealing millions of files with the emails and their passwords belonging to approximately 10 thousand police officers. They also say he stole thousands of identification numbers known as CPRs from a motor vehicles license database.

Warg claims the accusations against him are false and simply a political move against the controversial website, The Pirate Bay, which he helped to create.

The Pirate Bay was started back in 2003 and today is one of the most popular file sharing torrent download sites on the Internet. Sweden tried to have the site shut down and seize the domain name in both Sweden and Iceland. In response to this, TPB quickly transferred their domain to an .sx registration, which is out of the Dutch Caribbean territory of Sint Maarten.