Revealed: Russia’s secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK
Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange.
A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of Ecuador’s London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to Russia, where Assange would not be at risk of extradition to the US. The plan was abandoned after it was deemed too risky.