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Assange’s mate nicked $240,000 from Wikileaks

by on27 November 2014



With fiends like that who needs enemas?

An Icelandic computer hacker and former associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unexpectedly pleaded guilty to embezzling $240,000 from his former chum’s organization.

Sigurdur Thordarsson known as 'Siggi the Hacker' previously claimed he had turned an informant for the FBI in 2011, a year before Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault accusations. In the run up to his Iceland trial, Thordarsson rejected charges that he stole the proceeds of the sales of Wikileaks-branded items. No date was set for sentencing in the case.

Thordarsson posted a long description of his ties to Wikileaks including photos of him with Assange, his dialogue with the FBI and his defence against the fraud charges, on an Icelandic news website in June 2013. He originally said his own bank account had to be used to take in money for Wikileaks merchandise because a block had been imposed on company credit cards after the release of the cables.

Wikileaks representative Kristinn Hrafnsson said that Thordarsson was a volunteer who abused his position through fraud to obtain money from T-shirts and coffee mugs just after we were imposed with the banking blockade.

"We lodged a complaint in Denmark pertaining to a meeting that took place between him and FBI agents in 2011. We want that to be probed on the basis that it was an illegal operation according to Danish law," he said.

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