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Former associate of Julian Assange, Sigurdur Thordarsson pleads guilty to embezzling from WikiLeaks after turning informant to the FBI.
An Icelandic computer hacker and former associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unexpectedly pleaded guilty on Wednesday to embezzling 30 million Icelandic crowns (NZ$308,826) from the organisation.
Sigurdur Thordarsson's courtroom plea is the latest twist in the saga of Wikileaks, which released thousands of secret US embassy cables in 2010 and 2011, deeply embarrassing Washington.
Known as 'Siggi the Hacker', Thordarsson has previously said that he turned an informant for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, a year before Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault accusations that he has denied.
In the run up to his Iceland trial, Thordarsson rejected charges that he stole the proceeds of the sales of Wikileaks-branded items, and his U-turn on Wednesday was a surprise.
"After going over the charges thoroughly and speaking with my client, he has decided to plead guilty to all charges," Thordarsson's lawyer, Vilhjalmur Vilhjalmsson, told the court.
The lawyer would not make any comment after the court session, including why Thordarsson had changed his mind.
No date was set for sentencing in the case.
Thordarsson posted a long description of his ties to Wikileaks including photos of him with Assange, his dialogue with the FBI and his defence against the fraud charges, on an Icelandic news website in June 2013.
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