Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a key witness in the US Justice Department process against Julian Assange, confessed in an interview that he lied in his statements used by the US authorities to build the case against the WikiLeaks founder.
“This is the end of the case against Julian Assange,” wrote former CIA and US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in reference to these revelations.
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson was a WikiLeaks volunteer turned FBI’s first known informant within the organization in exchange for about $ 5,000 and immunity from prosecution.
Thordarson has admitted that his previous claim that Assange asked him to ‘hack’ into MPs’ computers to access recordings of his private phone conversations is false and that he never requested it.
The man explained that he, in fact, received files from third parties who told him that they had recorded the parliamentarians and proposed to share them with Assange without checking their content.
The British Justice decided not to extradite Assange to the United States for fear that he would commit suicide, a country where he faces up to 175 years in prison for 18 charges against him, as a result of the publication of secret documents on his WikiLeaks portal. . They accuse him of violating the Espionage Law and conspiring to commit computer intrusion and access government computers with classified information.
However, now the veracity of the information on which the US indictment is based has been denied by the main witness, whose testimony has been key. While the British court was guided by humanitarian grounds in ruling against Assange’s extradition, the US legal team’s argument included the claim that the defendant and his informant, Thordarson, tried together to decipher a file stolen from an Icelandic bank.
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