Julian Assange will be expelled within hours to days, according to a “high level source” quoted by WikiLeaks.

Mr Assange has been in Ecuador’s London embassy since 2012 after he sought refuge there following a British judge ruling he should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.

Sweden dropped the case in 2017 but Mr Assange remains in the embassy as he fears being extradited to the US to face charges over the WikiLeaks website’s release of sensitive US government files.

Late on Thursday, WikiLeaks claimed that a senior source in Ecuador’s state department had told it that Assange would be expelled and the INA Papers would be used as a pretext for this.

In a blog post, WikiLeaks said that the move was an attempt by Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno to cover up activities related to his use of an offshore tax haven created by his brother.

But Assange’s lawyer has reportedly said he had nothing to do with the leak of the papers.

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