#8 Gottfrid Svartholm Warg

Company: The Pirate Bay

Date captured: Sept. 2, 2012

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. On 31 January 2008, all the Pirate Bay operators were charged with "promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws and found to be guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available". Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and US$4,222,980 as damage charges from the company.

Warg was been a fugitive taking shelter in Cambodia for several years and on 30 August 2012, at the request of Swedish authorities, he was arrested by Cambodian police.

He’s set to carry out his one-year sentence with more jail time for fleeing the country from his initial verdict to be later assigned. The whole charges of copyright infringements were appealed again, the proceedings are yet hot in Swedish Courts.  

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