Have Pirate Bay bank accounts been frozen?
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Bank accounts belonging to The Pirate Bay Four may have been frozen by the Kronofogden, Sweden’s official debt collection agency.
It’s, “has already sent payment orders to the four men convicted in the case demanding they pay the first 12.1 million kronor ($1.5 million) of the 30 million kronor damages claim that accompanied the guilty verdict against them,” says The Local, going on »»»
Peter Sunde responded by putting the payment orders through a paper shredder.
“I’ve already shredded them. I don’t have the money so it’s not going to affect my personal finances,” he told the TT news agency.
As it stands now, only one of the men, Wasabröd food empire heir Carl Lundström, has sufficient funds to pay off the claim.
Since the fine is to be paid by the four men together, and the other three men convicted in the case — Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg — lack assets of any sizeable value, Lundström will end up footing the entire bill.
Says Sunde on The Pirate Bay blog, “We have seen that some people that we dont know have started collecting donations for us, so we can pay those silly fines. We firmly ask you NOT to do this. Do not gather or send any money.
“We do not want them since we will not pay any fines!”
Nonetheless, “We’ll start looking for assets,” The Local quotes Kronofogden employee Fredrik Karlsson as saying.
“The money in the accounts is an asset and if we find it we’ll seize it.”
The Local – Sweden to freeze guilty Pirates’ loot, May 12, 2009
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
But if there is an appeal, won’t the fine collection have to be put off until after the appeal runs it’s course?
May 17th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Sounds to me like they’re in a hurry to get their money, because they know the judge is in league with the MAFIAA, and that will be grounds to have the verdict, if not the entire case, thrown out, for which they’ll invent some sort of excuse not to give back the money when the egg goes flying in their faces.
If the Kronofogden, acting on behalf of the MAFIAA, are so hell-bent on getting their money, and the Pirate Bay really doesn’t have that kind of money on them, I think the MAFIAA will lean on them to push them into taking their homes and auction them off to pay those fines.
Why aren’t they waiting for the appeals to run its course? Because the MAFIAA want to take their money and run. We know full well that, if the appeals go the Pirate Bay’s way, the MAFIAA don’t have any intention to pay back the money they stole from them.