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Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Julian Assange residency | News.com.au

ECUADOR has offered Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has enraged Washington by releasing masses of classified US documents, residency with no questions asked.

"We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas told the Ecuadorinmediato website today.

"We are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the internet but in a variety of public forums," he said.

Ecuador's leftist government is one of several in the region that have often been at odds with Washington.

Mr Lucas said even though Ecuador's policy was not to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries, it was "concerned" by the information in the cables because it involved other countries "in particular Latin America".

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An international arrest warrant was issued in mid-November against Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, on suspicion of rape and sexual molestation of two women in Sweden.

The US, for its part, has a criminal investigation under way into the release of some 250,000 diplomatic cables, the most recent of three huge document dumps by the self-styled whistleblower website.

The White House branded those who released the documents "criminals, first and foremost," but so far US authorities have publicly filed no charges against Assange.

Now, the 39-year-old former computer hacker said, he will expose global corporations.

Speaking from his hideout in a London flat, Assange said a new haul of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector, would be released early next year.

Wikileak's next target will be a major American bank, he said.

"It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms," he told Forbes magazine, adding: "For this, there's only one similar example.

"It's like the Enron emails."

Assange also said he was sitting on a haul of damaging data on pharmaceutical, finance and energy companies.

He had information on everything from BP to an Albanian oil firm that attempted to sabotage competitors wells, he said.

"You could call it the ecosystem of corruption," he said.

The North Queensland born activist said as his profile grew the secrets fed to Wikileaks expanded.

"These megaleaks ... they're an important phenomenon. And they're only going to increase," he said.

The constant scandal-causing exposures are motivated by "pain for the guilty", he said.

Speaking from a room packed with computers and programmers, with wires trailing across the floor, Assange yesterday told the The Times why he had unleashed the latest Wikileaks deluge.

"You only live once, why not do something worthwhile?" Assange said.

Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland has instructed Federal Police to investigate Assange and said he possibly faced arrest and the removal of his passport if he entered Australia.

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