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Midweek Roundup: Global Banks Handled Billions for Iran, Wirecard Ignored Compliance Chief, and More

Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and five other global lenders handled at least $6.5 billion from 2007 to 2015 for entities linked to Reza Zarrab, a Turkish Iranian businessman the U.S. has accused of orchestrating a massive Iran-sanctions evasion scheme, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. More Wirecard managers overrode their head of compliance in providing services to accused money launderer Dmytro Firtash and his companies beginning in 2019, Profil reported. More Malta's financial intelligence unit disclosed plans to shift from imposing fines on institutions that fail to comply with their anti-money laundering obligations and...

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