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Laundering costs British bank $350M

May 11, 2009

Miami Herald

American anti-money-laundering officials racked up their biggest success to date when a British bank agreed to pay $350 million to the federal government and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office earlier this year for violating federal and New York state laws.

Lloyds TSB Bank, an international bank based in the United Kingdom, in January agreed to forfeit the money after U.S. investigators found that it falsified information on electronic fund transfers from Iranian and Sudanese banks to U.S. banks.

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