Police Decide Drop Investigation on The Pirate Bay Co-founder Fredrik Neij In fact, Fredrik Neij was in jail when the raid took place, but the police thought the man might still run The Pirate Bay somehow. Neij is definitely relieved with the development and now hopes to get compensation for the seizure of his possessions, which has finally proved to be completely unsubstantiated. It has not yet been confirmed by the police whether or not the whole raid investigation will be closed or if there are still suspects in relation to it. Unnamed sources however claim that from the 2014 raid, the police generally have nothing tangible against the website. Neij was sentenced to one year in prison and was ordered to pay $905k in 2009, when the Stockholm District Court held the first trial against the three co-founders and a service provider for the notorious website. Neij was again arrested in November 2014 by Interpol and sentenced for running a file-hosting service in Laos to another 10 months. He served two-thirds of it in the Skänninge Prison where he was at the time of the aforementioned raid. He had to wait for the police to decide on the results of the investigation after his release to go through yet another round of psychological damage that can not be compensated for. As for The Pirate Bay itself it is currently undergoing technical problem registration system remains closed as users are already leaking to other torrent indexing platforms which means The Pirate Bay is becoming slowly but steadily irrelevant.