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EU says card firms' block on WikiLeaks did not break rules Nov 27th 2012, 10:58 BRUSSELS | Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:58am EST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by Visa Europe and other credit card companies is unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday. DataCell, a company that collects donations for WikiLeaks, complained to the Commission about Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and American Express Co after they stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks in December 2010. Their decisions followed criticism by the United States of WikiLeaks' release of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. "On the basis of the information available, the Commission considers that the complaint does not merit further investigation because it is unlikely that any infringement of EU competition rules could be established," said a spokesman for the Commission, the EU executive. He added, however, that the Commission would look at new information from DataCell before taking a final decision. (Reporting by Adrian Croft. Editing by Sebastian Moffett.)

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