On emerging from jail in Denmark, Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the founders of Pirate Bay, was arrested yet again – just hours after his release. He is now expected to be extradited to Sweden where he would have to spend at least four more weeks in prison.

Svartholm, a Swedish citizen and co-founder of the popular torrent website, was released on parole on Thursday after completing his prison sentence in Denmark, where he had been found guilty of hacking into computers of the Danish company CSC.



However, he was re-arrested by Danish police several hours after his release. It turned out that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had issued an arrest warrant for Svartholm in June, as reported by the TorrentFreak, with a reference to the man’s mother, Kristina Svartholm.



Earlier, Svartholm had also been convicted in Sweden for his participation in the founding of the Pirate Bay website. When Sweden later extradited him to Denmark, the man had not yet completed his whole sentence in his homeland, having about four weeks remaining.

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Sweden wanted Svartholm to serve the rest of the sentence in Denmark. However, the Danish authorities declined the request, thus forcing the Swedes to issue a warrant demanding Svartholm’s re-arrest and extradition.



Svartholm’s mother told TorrentFreak that both Swedish and Danish authorities had failed to inform her son about the situation properly.



“[This was] never communicated properly to Gottfrid, neither from Sweden nor Denmark. We found out about it on our own,” Kristina Svartholm told TorrentFreak.



“Tuesday this week, two days before his release date [which was officially communicated to him only some two weeks ago] Gottfrid was informed that the Danish prosecutor had decided that he should be handed over because of the warrant,” she added.

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Svartholm appealed his arrest and potential extradition to Sweden on Friday morning.

According to TorrentFreak, if his appeal succeeds, he will serve the rest of his Swedish sentence in Denmark, and if it fails, he will be extradited to Sweden.



Yet, according to his mother, the IT specialist is already planning what he will do after his final release.



“What Gottfrid wants to do now, more than anything else, is to get back to his developmental work within IT. And, of course, first of all: to sit by a keyboard again after nearly three years away from one,” Kristina Svartholm said.

Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia in August 2012 and extradited to Sweden charged with taking part in the founding of the Pirate Bay website. He was sentenced to two years in prison but, after an appeals process, his jail term was reduced to one year.



As he was serving his time in Sweden, when a separate case connected to the hacking of the CSC computers was launched against him in Denmark. As a result, he was extradited to Denmark, where he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Svartholm has always maintained that he was innocent in this case and filed several appeals. He lost the last and final one at the Appeals Court of Denmark just last June, but became eligible for parole in late August.