September 25, 2015

FBI's Wikileak informant goes to jail for sexually violating young males

Iceland Magazine - The Reykjanes District Court has sentenced Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson, better known as “Siggi the hacker” to three years in prison for having sexually violated nine young men in over seventy separate incidences in the years 2011-2013, the local news site visir.is reports. Sigurður is to pay his victims 8.6 million ISK (67,000 USD in restitution. His victims were all teenagers when the crimes took place.

Sigurður worked with Julian Assange on the Wikileaks project as a volunteer, moving to the inner circle of the group, before falling out with Assange who accused him of having embezzled funds from the group. It was later revealed that Siggi “the hacker” had also worked as a paid informant to the FBI, handing over internal WikiLeaks documents and emails.  Julian Assange was allowed to testify by telephone to the Reykjanes district court the embezzlement case against Sigurður.

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