A man with close ties to Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested while trying to leave Ecuador, the country's interior ministry said, ONA reports citing AP.
Interior Minister María Paula Romo did not name the man but said he had been arrested for "investigative purposes".
An unnamed government official said that the man is Ola Bini, a Swedish software developer.
It comes just hours after Assange was himself arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
"A person close to Wikileaks, who has been residing in Ecuador, was arrested this afternoon when he was preparing to travel to Japan," Ecuador's interior ministry tweeted late on Thursday.
Ecuadorean official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that Mr Bini and had been arrested at Quito Airport.
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