Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lindstrom has died in a place crash at the age of 64.
The controversial Swedish businessman was killed when the small plane he was flying crashed in Slovenia, according to The Independent.
Lundstrom, a member of the far-right Alternative for Sweden party, was the only occupant of the plane.
He was reportedly traveling from Croatia to Switzerland when his plane crashed.
‘Lundstrom, a legend and veteran of Swedish nationalism, died in a on Monday,’ the party wrote on Facebook.
Officials said the plane likely crashed due to spatial disorientation in ‘extremely’ bad weather.
Harrowing images from the crash location show a cabin was completely destroyed by the aircraft, which had its propeller split in two after the crash.
‘Based on the findings so far, it can be concluded that the cockpit could be located in the building itself or its basement. The wooden hut is practically cut in half and is therefore extremely unstable, so entry into the building is not possible, as there is a possibility of collapse at any moment,’ officials said.
‘Due to the complexity of access to the building, it has not yet been possible to provide the necessary machinery and other equipment on site to secure the building at least enough for rescue teams to enter the building and find the pilot.’
Lindstrom was one of the early financers of Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website founded in 2003 to allow users to skip copyright fees.
Swedish authorities, however, raided its servers in 2006 and Lundstrom was among those charged with being an ‘accessory to breaching copyright law.’
Lundstrom and the other founders was sentenced to prison and fined as a result.
He only served four months, instead of a year, after filing a success appeal.
Lundstrom has participated in Sweden’s far-right nationalist movement since the 1980s.
He called for mass deportations of migrants, withdrawing from the European Union and bans on same-sex adoptions and same-sex marriages.