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Midweek Roundup: Commerzbank Raided in German Tax Probe, Panama Shutters Lender, and More

German investigators searched Commerzbank's headquarters in Frankfurt amid suspicions the lender may have played a larger role in a carbon-tax fraud scandal than initially thought, Handelsblatt reported. More Panamanian regulators ordered the sale of AllBank in response to compliance failures, four days after the lender's Venezuelan owner saw another of his banks shut down in Curacao for anti-money laundering lapses, MENAFN reported. More ABLV Bank, a Latvian lender that lost its operating license following U.S. accusations of widespread money laundering, filed an appeal with the European Court of Justice to resume operations, Law360 reported. More A French appeals court upheld...

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