A Swedish prosecutor says that in a month's time he hopes to bring charges against Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm who is alleged to have hacked into an IT company working for Sweden's tax authority. Gottfrid's mother Kristina says that considering the huge resources committed to the investigation so far, there is now a need to show the politicians some kind of result. In the meantime, Gottfrid is well, if a little bored.

In late August 2012, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden.

It was presumed that Gottfrid had been taken to serve the year in prison he was handed for his involvement in The Pirate Bay, but quickly it become clear the authorities also had other things on their minds.

After he touched down at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport the authorities claimed Gottfrid had been involved in hacking Logica, a Swedish IT company working with local tax authorities.

Gottfrid has been held ever since, first in solitary confinement and more recently at Mariefred prison roughly 65 km outside Stockholm. In addition, Gottfrid is also a suspect in another hacking claim.

“I contacted the prosecutor about two weeks ago and asked him about what will happen in the near future,” Gottfrid’s mother Kristina Svartholm informs TorrentFreak.

“Earlier he told the media that he will decide about any prosecution or not for the two infringements and four frauds that Gottfrid is suspected of, in late January/beginning of February. To me he said that he would first finish his investigation and then decide about any prosecution. I didn’t get any time schedule for this.”

Prosecutor Henrik Olin now says he hopes to complete his investigation in a month at which point he’ll make his decision.

“Our ambition is to be able to prosecute. But I am of course open to any new information that may come in,” says Olin.

Reports from his mother say that Gottfrid is being treated well by both the guards and his fellow inmates after he was moved from solitary. His only enemy is boredom since he is still denied computer and Internet access, a situation which isn’t likely to change.

In the coming month, Kristina says it’s a case of wait-and-see.

“There were five police men and two guards who picked Gottfrid up in Cambodia (the figures are his), plus around a dozen Cambodian police men looking through and emptying his flat there according to his landlord,” Kristina says.

“Add that to the fifteen police men working on his case here in Sweden (the figure is the prosecutor’s), and there must be some result at the end to show the politicians, I suppose.”