Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (born 27 April 1978), alias TiAMO,[1] is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ.
On 17 April 2009, Neij was found guilty of copyright infringement and he was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay damages of $905,000.
[4] In November 2014, Neij was arrested in Nong Khai on an Interpol warrant while attempting to cross the border from Laos to Thailand.
During his three years in Laos, he had reportedly crossed the border almost 30 times into Thailand, where he had a home on the resort island of Phuket.
[6] BayFiles, a Pirate Bay-affiliated file hosting website registered under Neij's name, was abruptly shut down after the arrest.