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The Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij, who was arrested in Thailand earlier this week, will be extradited to Sweden in short order, officials announced on Wednesday.

Neij, one of four co-founders of the infamous file-sharing website, will be extradited to Sweden to begin serving his prison sentence within the next month, a Thailand immigration official told Reuters. Staff from the Swedish embassy will be able to interrogate Neij before he's officially extradited, the official added.

Neij was arrested on Monday at the Thailand-Laos border after five years of avoiding incarceration for his conviction in Sweden of illegally sharing copyright-protected files. Neij, who has been living in Laos, entered and left Thailand on several occasions before finally being apprehended, officials said.

Neij was among The Pirate Bay co-founders found guilty in 2009 of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.

The Pirate Bay, which launched in Sweden in 2003, has enabled mass sharing of files and content such as movies, regardless of copyright status.

Neij, along with fellow The Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde and Swedish telecom owner Carl Lundstrom, were each sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to collectively pay 30 million Swedish kronor (about $3.6 million at the time) in damages to copyright holders.

After sentencing -- and subsequent appeals were denied -- the co-founders went on the run. Warg was arrested in 2012 in Cambodia after local police exercised a warrant against him. Sunde was arrested in Sweden. Neij was the last The Pirate Bay co-founder still at large before his arrest on Monday.

The Swedish government has yet to say whether Neij's decision to not immediately serve his sentence could change the amount of time he faces in jail.