Local police in Cambodia have announced that one of the founders of the Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, has been arrested as a result of an international warrant issued against him last April by his homecountry Sweden.

The country reacted after Warg failed to turn up for the beginning of his 1 year jail sentence for multiple copyright violations.

“His arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crime related to information technology,” Cambodia’s police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told the AFP news agency. “We don’t have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we’ll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case,” the spokesman added.

Warg, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and their financier Carl Lundstroem were convicted by a Swedish court for encouraging copyright violations in 2009. Lundstroem, Sunde and Neij each had their 1 year jail sentences reduced following an appeal in 2010. The appeal allowed their sentences to be reduced to between four and ten months. In addition, they were also ordered to pay the music and movie companies almost £4m ($7m) in damages for their copyright violations.

Warg did not attend the appeal with his defence lawyer citing being too ill as his reason. The Swedish court decided to uphold his sentence.

Incidentally, no copyrighted material is actually hosted on the Pirate Bay’s website, it simply acts as a linking site to its users torrent servers where the users themselves store the data.