In which nation's London embassy did Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seek diplomatic asylum in 2012?
Embassy of Ecuador, London 2015, costs of policing Julian Assange had reached £10 million. Although Paul Manafort had not logged into the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia (SENAIN) had records of his visits in 2015 and March 2016, which SENAIN had recorded him as "Paul Manaford [sic]", along with Russians. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was residing in the embassy at the time. "The Guardian" revealed in May 2018 that Ecuador employed an international security company for more than five years to monitor Julian Assange's visitors. Embassy of Ecuador, London The Embassy of Ecuador in London is the diplomatic mission
Julian Assange May 2017, the Swedish authorities dropped their investigation against Assange, claiming they could not expect the Ecuadorian Embassy to communicate reliably with Assange with respect to the case. Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny officially revoked his arrest warrant, but said the investigation could still be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020. "We are not making any pronouncement about guilt", she said. On 19 June 2012, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Wikileaks insiders stated that