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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Originally Posted by Derek
Looks like being the friend of someone as slippery as Mr Assange can be an expensive business.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...d-forfeit-bail
Still why was the money not held in escrow until his legal status was sorted out and why do they get a discount on the money owed when it's clear he has failed to comply with the bail conditions surely the full amount should be forfeited. |
It does seem weird. Even weirder is that people are ordered to pay different percentages of the amount pledged.
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Vaughan Smith, the former British army captain who hosted Assange at his Norfolk home while he was on bail throughout 2011, and had promised to pay £20,000 if Assange skipped bail, was ordered to pay £12,000, while Philip Knightly, a veteran Australian investigative journalist who exposed the British traitor Kim Philby as a Russian spy, was ordered to pay £15,000, £5,000 less than he originally pledged.
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So they both pledged to pay £20k and one is ordered to pay £12k and the other £15k?
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