LJUBLJANA: Swedish businessman Carl Lundstroem, co-founder of illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has died in an aeroplane crash in Slovenia, according to the far-right party he was linked to.

Slovenian police confirmed on Wednesday that they found a body `likely of the pilot, a Swedish citizen` but declined to identify him pending forensic research.

The plane crashed into a wooden cabin in the Velika Planina area of northern Slovenia on Monday, but bad weather prevented rescuers from recovering the body until Tuesday.

Swedish far-right party Alternative for Sweden said in a post that Lundstroem had died in the accident.

`Lundstroem, a legend and veteran of Swedish nationalism, died in a plane crash on Monday,` the post said.

Lundstroem, 64, had taken off with his Mooney M20 aeroplane from Croatia`s capital Zagreb heading for Zurich in Switzerland, it added. Lundstroem was the grandson of the founder of the world`s largest crispbread producer Wasabroed..-AFP