Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, also known as TiAMO, is one of the founders of the Swedish torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ. A joint criminal and civil prosecution of Neij and three other individuals namely, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, associated with The Pirate Bay, were carried out in Sweden in The Pirate Bay trial after the four were charged for "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws". All the four were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to jointly pay a fine of 30 million SEK. The verdict was appealed by all the four following which their prison terms were shortened, however with increased damages. Neij was detained and arrested in Nong Khai, Thailand on an Interpol warrant while he was trying to cross the border from Laos to Thailand. He served two hundred days of his ten-month prison term in central Sweden’s Skänninge Prison and was released in June 2015. Neij thereafter planned to work in the IT sector and settle in Laos.
