WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is likely to be expelled from the Ecuador embassy in London, according to a Wikileaks Tweet.
According to the tweet sent out on Thursday, the “#INAPapers offshore scandal” was being as a pretext to expel Assange.
“A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within ‘hours to days’ using the INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext – and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest,” the tweet read.
The INA papers are a collection of documents leaked to an Ecuadorian lawmaker and which have implicated President Lenin Moreno in a corruption scandal.
The statement comes two days after Moreno accused Assange of repeatedly violating the terms of his asylum and said the government was seeking an arrangement with Britain to allow Assange to leave the embassy.
In an interview broadcast by several Ecuadoran radio stations, President Moreno said: “Assange has too often repeatedly violated the agreement we have with him and his legal team”, without saying whether Ecuador would withdraw asylum.
“It is not that he cannot speak freely, it is not that he cannot express himself freely, but he cannot lie, let alone hack into accounts or intercept private telephone calls” under the terms of his asylum agreement, said Moreno.
Ecuador also suspects that WikiLeaks is responsible for sharing private photographs of Moreno on social media recently.
