Sweden has withdrawn an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who had been wanted on suspicion of rape and molestation, the national prosecutor's office said today.
It said in a statement on its website that chief prosecutor Eva Finne had determined the allegations were unfounded.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said Mr Assange, whose whistle-blowing website last month published secret US military files on Afghanistan, was no longer wanted by Swedish authorities.
"She (Finne) has come to the decision that he is no longer suspected of rape. All the charges concerning rape have been lifted," she said.
Mr Assange, an Australian, was in Sweden last week to discuss his work and defend his intent to publish further documents on the war in Afghanistan. He has close ties with the Nordic country, where Wikileaks has said it keeps some of its servers.
Earlier a spokeswoman for the national prosecutor's office confirmed Mr Assange was wanted on on rape charges. One is rape and one is molestation," she said, without giving details.
Mr Assange told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter via email he had not been contacted by police.
"Why these accusations are popping up right now is an interesting question. I have not been contacted by police. These allegations are false," he said.
US officials have called the leak, including more than 70,000 documents detailing the war in Afghanistan, one of the biggest security breaches in US military history.
Wikileaks promotes the leaking of information to fight government and corporate corruption. Earlier this year, it leaked a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists.
The Pentagon said this month it would be the "height of irresponsibility" if WikiLeaks went through with a new threat to publish outstanding documents it had on the Afghan war.
It wants the site to expunge all classified material from the Internet and return the material it had to the US government.