Jónsdóttir, who represents Iceland‘s Pirate Party, maintains that the UK‘s intelligence agencies systematically intercepted messages sent by Icelandic negotiators when Britain tried to recover savers’ cash held in the country’s banks that went bankrupt.

Jónsdóttir, a prominent WikiLeaks supporter, said that she was tipped off to the spying in 2010 by Assange, Iceland‘s Visir newspaper reported.