Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe says the operation is being reviewed, as there’s “no doubt it’s a drain.”
Assange has been living in the embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where prosecutors want to question him about 2010 allegations that he raped one woman and sexually molested another.
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In June 2012, Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy to seek asylum, which was granted in August of the same year.
He’s been living at the embassy in London since then.
