Founder of the website "Vikiliks" Australian Julian Assandzh signed a contract worth more than £ 1 million to write his autobiography.
According Assandzha, he just had to do it because of dire need for funds, it needs to continue a legal defense against the charges against him by the Swedish authorities allegations of sexual crimes and extradition on that basis in Sweden.
"I did not want to write this book, but I have to do it - he said. - My legal costs are already accounted for 200,000 pounds (320,000 dollars), and I must continue to defend itself and maintain" Vikiliks "afloat. "
Assandzh said that under the agreement he will receive 800 thousand dollars from his U.S. publisher Alfred Knopf, and 325 thousand pounds (520,000 dollars) from the British publisher, as well as some more money in one way or another connected with this agreement, that in the end and would amount to approximately 1.1 million pounds (1,700,000 dollars).
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