Assange ‘frustrating’ for UK and Sweden officials

Police monitor Assange's supporters at a rally in June 2014. Photo: TT

Julian Assange's residence in London's Ecuadorian embassy is 'frustrating', the UK's Deputy Prime Minister has said, after figures emerged that the Wikileaks founder's security has cost around 125 million kronor ($15 million) as he fights extradition to Sweden.

Police in London have confirmed that the Australian cost UK taxpayers 113 million kronor between June 2012 and October 2014, with current daily costs of around 13,000 kronor expected to have pushed up the total spending to 125 million kronor.

The figures were obtained by London radio station LBC under the UK's Freedom of Information Act.

In response, the UK's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Assange should "face justice" and spoke of a "frustrating situation" for both the British taxpayer and the Swedish government, during his weekly radio phone-in on LBC.

Julian Assange is wanted over rape and sexual assault claims made by two women in Sweden in 2010.

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