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2008-04-18, for immediate release: Chief police investigator in Pirate Bay trial employed by the copyright industry

Jim Keyzer has had a leading role in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay as head of the preliminary investigation. In the
upcoming trial he is expected to be a key witness and due to being a police investigator to have high credibility.

Keyzer was also heading an investigation where The Pirate Bay sued some of the mayor media corporations for data trespassing.
That case was recently cancelled by him.

But....

New information reveals that the 39-year old investigator isn't the objective professional a police investigator should be.
Since March 16 this year, he is employed by Warner Bros, one of the plaintiffs in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay.
Keyzer himself confirmed the information but refused to reveal what his position within the company is.

- It was yesterday that the blog, kopit.se, discovered that Jim had changed employer on his Facebook profile. The new employer
was Warner Bros and we decided to call him up and ask about it. He confirmed that he is an employee there and we can't see it
in any other way than this being the reward for a work well done from the new employer of the police - the entertainment industry,
says Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay.

According to Peter Althin, Sunde's laywer, the consequence of the information could be that the investigation has to be remade.

- If the trial wasn't already just a political theatre, this clearly shows that this is not a fair and balanced trial. The copyright
industry stands no chance in an objective legal judgement and therefor have to cheat their way forward. Their legitimacy has hit rock
bottom, says Magnus Eriksson of copyright critics Piratbyrån (Bureau for Piracy).

- This is a legal outrage. Talk about biased, Sunde continues. Keyzer is in charge of the investigation. No matter the reasons to
switch employer, this investigation has not been fair. We have felt that the investigation has concentrated on trying to locate something
to point out as wrong with The Pirate Bay instead of determining if the activities of the site are unlawful or not.

Monique Wadsted, laywer at MAQS law firm, representing Hollywood in the case, comments on the story this way:
- I suppose this is Warner Bros way of expressing how they feel about the good work Jim Keyzer has done. But nothing inappropriate
has been going on during the preliminary investigation.

How nice of Hollywood to come up with yet another unbiased voice to tell us the truth...About time to investigate the investigators!

You probably know the story by now. Jim Keyzer, a Police IT forensics specialist who was leading the Pirate Bay investigation, let it slip he was working for Warner on a social networking site. A strange move to say the least.

Soon after the news got out it became clear that Keyzer had started working for the movie studio before the Pirate Bay investigation was closed. Warner denied this initially, and stated that the investigator was not employed or paid by the movie studio while he was still working on the case.

However, after The Pirate Bay crew filed criminal complaints for bribery of a police officer, Warner suddenly admitted he was working for them.

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was convinced that they had a strong case, as he said: “He [Keyzer] confirmed that he is an employee there [Warner Bros'] and we can’t see it in any other way than this being the reward for work well done from the new employer of the police, the entertainment industry”

However, in a letter received today by Peter Sunde, Kay Engfeldt of the prosecutors department states that there will be no investigation into Jim Keyzer. “[there is] no reason to believe that a crime has been committed by anyone employed by the police.”

Of course, until you investigate, you won’t find any evidence. That’s why in general allegations are investigated first, especially when there is evidence to back up the claim. Sunde told TorrentFreak that they would be filing an appeal on Monday.