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Credit Agricole to Pay U.S. Nearly $800 Million for Willful Sanctions Violations

By Kira Zalan

France's largest retail bank will pay $787 million to U.S. authorities and fire one employee to avoid criminal and civil charges that it violated economic sanctions and state recordkeeping rules. Over the course of five years, Credit Agricole SA and its subsidiary Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, which until 2010 operated under the name "Calyon," moved approximately $312 million through the U.S. financial system on behalf of blacklisted entities in Sudan, Iran, Myanmar and Cuba, according to federal and state regulators. As a result of written policies and procedures developed by compliance and business employees, the institution's current and...

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