WikiLeaks says its founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a sophisticated spying operation in London's Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012.
Mr Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012, fearing extradition to the USWikiLeaks said video, audio, photographs, copies of private legal documents and even a medical report turned up in Spain, where a group threatened to start publishing unless they were paid three million euros .
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said he met members of the group who were selling the material and that Spanish police are now investigating the case. "Extortion is a very serious matter but of much greater concern to me is this material-gathering and spying on Julian Assange by the [Ecuadorean] government," Mr Hrafnsson told reporters.Ecuadorian hospitality cools
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