Visa Europe Ltd. said it stopped payments to WikiLeaks a second time, hours after an Internet site restarted donations to the anti-secrecy group.
WikiLeaks’s payment provider, DataCell, attempted to use an alternative-payment gateway to process money sent through MasterCard, the world’s second-largest payments network, and Visa Europe, which runs the largest card network in the European Union, Reykjavik, Iceland-based DataCell said yesterday.
“As soon as this came to our attention, action was taken with the suspension of Visa payment acceptance,” Amanda Kamin, a spokeswoman for London-based Visa Europe said in an e-mailed statement today.
Visa Europe and MasterCard in December blocked WikiLeaks from using its network to collect funds from donors.
For more: Visa Europe Will Block WikiLeaks Donations Through Payment Site - Bloomberg
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