Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:24 AM
[ Last Update: Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:37 AM ] A court artist’s sketch of Julian Assange appearing at a London court (AP file photo)
A key witness has reportedly admitted that he lied in his testimony against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the United States.
The former WikiLeaks volunteer-turned-FBI informant, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, told Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the indictment against Assange.
Thordarson said that Assange never instructed him to carry out any hacking. He had previously claimed that Assange asked him to hack into lawmakers’ computers to access the recordings of their private phone conversations.