JULIAN ASSANGE: Visa again blocks funds for WikiLeaks!

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In this file photo illustration, a "WikiLeaks" graphic is displayed on a laptop. Financial services firm Visa has closed a donation channel to WikiLeaks after briefly accepting payments - AP.

Visa says it has closed a donation channel to WikiLeaks after briefly accepting payments.

Visa and MasterCard were two of several financial and Internet services companies that severed their ties to WikiLeaks following its disclosure of thousands of confidential U.S. documents.

DataCell chief executive Andreas Fink said on Thursday his site was accepting credit card payments on behalf of the secret-spilling site, an announcement that appeared to catch Visa off guard.

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JULIAN ASSANGE: WikiLeaks getting credit card funds!

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• July 8, 2011 
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WikiLeaks has again begun accepting credit card donations, a company affiliated with the secret-spilling site said Thursday.

Andreas Fink, the chief executive of Icelandic payment processor DataCell, told The Associated Press that Visa and MasterCard were again processing payments to WikiLeaks after a seven-month hiatus.

Fink claimed the move as a tacit admission of guilt from the credit card companies, but it may well have been accidental.

Visa Europe spokesman Simon Kleine told AP that processing the payments was "not something that we've sanctioned" and that the company was investigating. An email and phone calls seeking comment from MasterCard were not immediately returned.

Visa and MasterCard pulled the plug on the company, DataCell ehf, in early December, shortly after WikiLeaks began publishing about 250,000 U.S. State Department cables. But Fink said Thursday that card services had been restored — saying that lawyers had made sure of it by making test donations.

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