# London to Australia flight bond **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 28, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37 "2024-08-28T08:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/1 "2024-08-28T08:25:04Z")
Last month the Wau Holland Foundation [announced](https://chaos.social/@wauland/112811965030478412) that they had “received an invoice from the Australian government and paid the flight costs for Julian Assange from London to Australia (~480.000 €).” About 2 weeks before, the preliminary transparency report ([English](https://wauland.de/media/2024-07-11_prel.-transparency-report-07-ja.pdf), [German](https://wauland.de/media/2024-07-04_vorl-transparenzbericht-07-ja.pdf)) said that > The Foundation believes that the binding assumption of costs (respectively ‘deed; bond’) with the Australian government, for the costs of the charter flight on which Julian traveled from London via Bangkok and Saipan to Australia, will not be honored. The Assange campaign team has decided to collect separate donations for the flight and Julian’s recovery and has so far raised a total of around EUR 1 million. We therefore assume that the flight costs will not have to be paid by the Foundation Two hours after they posted the announcement, I [asked](https://chaos.social/@mxy@kolektiva.social/112812418940802272) Wau Holland what had changed, but I never got a reply. Amir [posted notes](https://t.me/Real_AssangeDAO/166/3403) saying that Wau Holland had “declared the willingness to pay in written form towards the AU gov. Up to 0.5m USD.” So I guess the Australian government decided to collect what they could? Is it coming from the DAO money? Wau Holland money? Is it being repaid from the separate donations? ---
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/3 "2024-09-02T12:47:57Z")
I forgot about the BTC ---
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/4 "2024-09-07T08:12:30Z")
According to the chat, Wau Holland hasn’t been responding to emails and cut off contact with Silke. I’m not sure how else to get an answer to this. ---
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/5 "2024-11-18T04:29:02Z")
In response to FOIs (not mine), Australia posted a pair of documents that are relevant. [The bond agreement and bill](https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/dfat-foi-lex11446_0.pdf) [Email confirming receipt of payment from Wau Holland Stiftung](https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/dfat-foi-lex11523.pdf) I don’t think either of the documents answer the questions we’re waiting on, but I wanted to share the relevant information with the DAO. ---
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/6 "2024-12-25T07:58:45Z")
Wau Holland specified they’re not being repaid after all ---
**Author:** ![sudongpo](https://forum.assangedao.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@sudongpo](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/sudongpo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/7 "2025-01-22T14:54:36Z")
This expense WAS necessary, because Julian was still an inmate when his journey started. Lawyers accompanied him from London onwards to Saipan (Marshall Islands), which has an American court (which is in charge of anything happening in Guam, I suppose). A week before the journey the Australian government had WHS sign a deed to bear the cost of the flight. The plane was chartered by the AU government and WHS reimbursed their expense. And yes, Assange campaign should have reimbursed WHS, because they explicitly asked for donations to pay for the plane, but they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/user_avatar/forum.assangedao.org/mxy/32/216_2.png) [@Mxy](https://forum.assangedao.org/u/Mxy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.assangedao.org/t/london-to-australia-flight-bond/37/8 "2025-01-23T05:55:57Z")
Exactly. From last month: [#FreeAssange Campaign raised over $1 million for Julian’s flight – why haven’t they paid? – emma best](https://emma.best/2024/12/27/freeassange-campaign-raised-over-1-million-for-julians-flight-why-havent-they-paid/)