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REVELATION: ASSANGE WAS BOUGHT FOR $4.2 BILLION – Former Ecuadorian
President Confirms IMF Loan In Exchange For Assange
12 April, 2019
QUITO, Ecuador – Former and much loved Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has accused Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno of suspending the asylum of cyber-activist Julian Assange in order to obtain a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Correa
said that there
is evidence of the agreement and
that Moreno, who Correa selected at his successor, has promised to
“hand over” Assange in a 2017 meeting with Paul Manafort, former
US campaign chief to Donald Trump.
Former
President Correa, who broke with Moreno, also commented on visits to
Ecuador by US Vice President Mike Pence.
At
these times, Moreno would have promised to “help isolate Venezuela,
leave the Chevron oil corporation, a company that destroyed half of
the Amazon rainforest, unpunished, and to deliver Assange.”
Last
month, the IMF announced approval of a $4.2 billion loan to Ecuador.
The first installment, of $652 million, has already been paid.
Correa
suspects that the Ecuadorian president made the decision to withdraw
Assange’s asylum after WikiLeaks published documents about Moreno’s
alleged relationship with a failing company, INA Papers.
The
former president pointed out that the company INA Papers was
registered in 2012, when Moreno was still its vice president.
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According
to the Ecuadorian head of state, the measure to remove his asylum was
a response to the journalist’s disrespectful and aggressive
behavior, his hostile and threatening statements against Ecuador and
alleged violations of international conventions, justifications
considered to be unconvincing both by supporters of the
cyber-activist as by several analysts.
Assange,
who is responsible for the publication of US government secret
documents, is the reason for the extradition request. The great
concern for his lawyers – and he too – is that the British
authorities actually decide to send him to the United States, where
the legal consequences of upsetting Washington are still uncertain.
Assange
will be on videoconference for the proceedings of the next
extradition hearing, set for May 2.
It
will be a preliminary session of a court case that can last for
months or even years.
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