A collaborator of Julian Assange was arrested while he was trying to leave Ecuador for Japan

A collaborator of the founder of Wikileaks, JUlyan Assange, was arrested Thursday in Quito while he was trying to travel to Japan, informed the Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo.

Without citing sources, the chain Teleamazonas he identified him as Ola Bini, a Swedish dedicated to the development of technologies related to security, privacy and cryptography.

Previously, the minister had badociated him with attempts to destabilize the president's government Lenin Moreno.

A WikiLeaks collaborator "was arrested simply for research purposes," the minister said, adding that the person had gone abroad with the former Ecuadorian chancellor. Ricardo Patiño.

Romo reported in the morning that "for several years lives in Ecuador one of the key members of this organization WikiLeaks and a person close to Mr. Julian Assange. We have enough evidence that he is collaborating in attempts to destabilize the government. "

The official presented his complaint to the press after the arrest of Australian Assange, to whom Quito had recently revoked Ecuadorian nationality and obtained diplomatic asylum, granted in 2012.

The Government of Ecuador believed that Assange "repeatedly violated" the rules that governed his protection. Assange has remained since 2012 a refugee in the Ecuadorian Legation in London for fear of being extradited to the United States, a country that demanded after being arrested by the British police.

L & # 39; lawyer Jennifer Robinson He added that the measure creates a "dangerous" precedent. "This precedent means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the United States for publishing truthful information about that country," he said.

He added: "I just met Mr. Assange in police cells, he wants to thank all his supporters for their continued support, and he said:" I told you so. ".

Carlos Poveda, the Assange Ecuadorian lawyer, said he feared for the life of the militant he was extradited to the United States., after the arrest warrant and extradition filed against him in London and the end of his asylum status.