Ecuador President Moreno slams Julian Assange, says he hosted hackers at embassy during seven-year stay
- Swedish programmer Ola Bini, who is in custody in Ecuador, was one of those who visited and during his stays hacked mobile phones and online accounts belonging to both private citizens and government
Ecuador’s president on Tuesday accused Julian Assange of hosting numerous hackers at the Ecuadorean embassy in London to give them directions on how to propagate information on topics important to the WikiLeaks founder and his financiers.
President Lenin Moreno said that Swedish programmer Ola Bini, who is in custody in Ecuador, was one of the hackers who visited Assange many times.
Bini lives in Quito and was detained last week just hours after Moreno evicted Assange from the embassy, allowing him to be arrested by British authorities. Moreno said Bini hacked mobile phones and online accounts belonging to both private citizens and Ecuador’s government.
In Quito earlier in the day, Bini’s parents made an anxious plea for authorities to release their son while expressing confidence he did nothing wrong.
“Ola is a friend of Julian Assange, nothing more,” said his father, Dag Gustafsson.