Earlier this week some payback was levied at the bankster criminals who imposed a banking blockade on WikiLeaks in 2010. A court in Iceland has ordered the then-VISA Iceland division, now known as VALITOR, to pay $10 million in damages for the credit card ban on donations to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks announced it on their Twitter account on April 24, and RT has since reported on it as well. The Icelandic press reported on the case with the sum as 1.2 billion ISK, the Icelandic currency. The recipients of the $10 million are DataCell, a WikiLeaks payment processor, and Sunshine Press, a WikiLeaks publisher.
The $10 million fine issued by the District Court of Reykjavik is a result of years of refusing to lift the ban, as ordered by the courts in 2011. Valitor was warned at the time of the ruling in 2011, that if they didn't lift the blockade, fine would continue to pile up.
But instead of accepted the ruling that they acted unlawfully 6 years ago, they didn't stop, and they still don't accept having done anything wrong, as they are seeking to appeal the new decision to force them to pay $10 million. DataCell had a contract, which Valitor violated, and subsequently sued for imposing an "extrajudicial" ban "without democratic oversight or transparency".
The blockade to ban donations to WikiLeaks in 2010 went beyond Valitor. The Bank of America, VISA, Western Union, PayPal, and Mastercard all acted together and jointly banned donations to WikiLeaks less than two weeks after publishing the Cablegate leaks. Cablegate exposed government behavior, specifically the U.S.'
These leaks are directly related to the witch hunt on facing Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. They came from Chelsea Manning, and are the reason Assange is being arrested and facing extradition to the U.S. It's also why Manning was imprisoned for 6 years and is now in prison again for refusing to answer a grand jury farce to try to pin anything on Assange or WikiLeaks.
Assange is being persecuted for publishing documents, while the twisted narrative is that he's a co-conspirator to unlawfully access and steal Pentagon documents. The government and media tried to link WikiLeaks and Assange in a failed Russiagate fabricated conspiracy, but they aren't done trying to punish Assange for exposing the government's dirt, or doing the job journalists are supposed to be doing and making them look bad.
What is going on in right now in the U.K., and what has been orchestrated from the U.S., is a travesty of justice. It shows the injustices of our times where war crimes are ignored, and the war criminals have the power to treat the person who exposed them as a criminal.
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