Cambodia deports Pirate Bay co-founder, heading to Sweden PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia on Monday deported a Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, who was convicted and sentenced to prison in Sweden for breaching copyright laws. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, who had been living in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, for four years to avoid a jail sentence for Internet piracy, was arrested at Sweden's request. Warg was put on a plane to Bangkok late on Monday and was due to take a flight from there to Stockholm early on Tuesday, said Chhuor Kimny, head of police at Phnom Penh International Airport. Police were investigating allegations by Warg's supporters that they had hacked into some government websites in protest at his detention, Cambodian national police chief Kirth Chantharith told Reuters on Monday. Warg's arrest in late August was followed by Sweden's signing of an agreement for nearly $60 million in development aid for Cambodia. An appeals court in Sweden sentenced three others behind the Pirate Bay site to between four months and 10 months in prison plus fines in 2010. Warg failed to attend that hearing due to illness and his sentencing was deferred. Peter Sunde, another co-founder of Pirate Bay, said last week on Twitter that Warg's arrest was related to the website's hosting of WikiLeaks. Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, provides links to music and movie files that are stored on other users' computers. Swedish subsidiaries of prominent music and film companies had taken the company to court claiming damages for lost revenue. Mainstream media firms have also taken steps to have it blocked in other countries, including the Netherlands and Finland, as they struggle to combat illegal downloads. Pirate Bay says no copyrighted material is stored on its servers and no exchange of files actually takes place there so it cannot be held responsible for what material is being exchanged. Reporting by Prak Chan Thul; Editing by Martin Petty and Alison Williams