Over €31,000 set aside for the legal defense of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been frozen by the Swiss bank PostFinance, which said that Assange had given false information in creating the account.

Assange, the 39-year-old Austrailian who's been the talk of the world's media since his website began releasing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, does not have a permanent legal residence, so he allegedly gave the bank the address of his Geneva-based attorney.