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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Australia has seen no evidence to suggest the US intends to seek the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says.
Britain’s Supreme Court is due to rule later on Wednesday whether to approve the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, where he is accused of sex crimes stemming from a visit to the country in 2010.
The 40-year-old Australian, best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret US documents, denies any wrongdoing.
Assange fears that extradition to Sweden will pave the way for extradition to the US to face possible espionage or conspiracy charges.
There have been claims that US prosecutors have drawn up a sealed indictment against Assange.
Senator Carr was asked about those claims during a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Wednesday.
“We’ve seen no evidence that such an indictment exists,” he said.
“We’ve no advice that the US has an intention to extradite Mr Assange.”
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Secretary Dennis Richardson said Australian officials had raised the claim with the US.
“We’ve obviously asked the US, we’ve talked about it, but we’re not aware of any evidence that such a sealed indictment exists,” he confirmed.
If Assange loses his Supreme Court appeal, he could conceivably appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which in the past has delayed high-profile extraditions for years on end.
But because Sweden is a fellow European country it’s not clear whether an appeal would stop him from being sent there.
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