Gottfrid Svartholm has been officially detained under suspicion of hacking into a Swedish IT company connected to the country's tax authorities. Agreeing with the prosecutor's request the Nacka District Court said Friday that the Pirate Bay co-founder should be detained for another two weeks to enable a thorough investigation to take place. Gottfrid denies all charges.

Following his arrest less than two weeks earlier, last Monday Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia.

Given that his visa had expired and that no extradition agreement exists between Cambodia and Sweden, Gottfrid should have had a choice of where to go. But instead he was taken to Sweden, ostensibly to serve an outstanding one year jail sentence for copyright infringement.

However, once he touched down at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, Gottfrid was handed new charges by the police who suspect him of being involved in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish IT company that works with the local tax authorities.

Gottfrid could be held until yesterday but prosecutor Henry Olin put in a request for him to be held longer. Friday morning the Nacka District Court decided that Gottfrid could be detained for another two weeks.

“This is a very comprehensive investigation into hacking that I as a prosecutor as well as other agencies take very seriously,” said Olin.

“Arrest, with the possibility of imposing restrictions, is one of the tools that the legislature has given us in order to conduct these kinds of investigations in an effective manner. From that perspective I feel that it was a success for the District Court to uphold my claim for custody,” he added.

Two other Swedish citizens, both in their thirties, were previously detained under suspicion of also being involved the hack. One of the suspects was a member of Piratbyran, the group that founded The Pirate Bay back in 2003.

Gottfrid denies all charges.