After three months in solitary confinement Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be released from custody. The prosecutor suspects Gottfrid of being involved in several hacking and fraud cases but he has yet to be charged in any of these cases. The Pirate Bay founder will now be transferred to a new prison which he will leave as a free man in five months if no new charges are brought against him.

Following his arrest late August, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden.

Initially it was assumed that Gottfrid was sent to Sweden because of the outstanding one year prison sentence in the Pirate Bay case.

However, once he touched down at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, the authorities said he was suspected of being involved in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish IT company that works with the local tax authorities.

Immediately after his arrival in Sweden, Gottfrid was put into custody awaiting the hacking related charges. Since then the Pirate Bay founder has been kept in solitary confinement, locked up 23 hours a day for weeks on end.

The prosecution kept extending custody and later implicated him in second hacking case along with accusations of four instances of serious fraud and four attempted frauds. Again, no official charges were filed.

Yesterday, after three months in custody, things changed for the better. Gottfrid’s mother Kristina Svartholm informed TorrentFreak that her son will no longer be kept in solitary confinement and will soon be released from custody.

“The prosecutor decided this morning that Gottfrid should be released from custody, which is great news. This means of course a much better situation for him, as he will no longer be kept in isolation,” Kristina said.

The authorities are currently looking for a prison where Gottfrid will serve the rest of his Pirate Bay sentence.

“Until then he will stay at the custody facility, but without any restrictions. This means that he can meet other people, not only his old mom,” Kristina told TorrentFreak.

The suspicions in the hacking and fraud cases haven’t been dropped but Gottfrid has not yet been charged for any of these offenses yet. If there is no change his prison term will end in May, as the time served in custody will be credited to his Pirate Bay sentence.

While Gottfrid wasn’t allowed to meet anyone except his mother during his solitary confinement, he was able to read many of the letters TorrentFreak readers and Gottfrid supporters everywhere wrote to him.

Kristina is grateful for this overwhelming support and told us previously that she is proud of what The Pirate Bay represents.

“I have learned so much about what TPB means to people. I feel so proud not only of what Gottfrid did but also of the other guys and what they created together. I am also proud of the crew that works on it today,” she said.