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Midweek Roundup: OFAC Penalizes Swedbank, Emails Purportedly Link Hunter Biden to Satabank and Burisma, and More

The U.S. Treasury fined Swedbank's Latvian branch $3.4 million for routing transactions for blacklisted parties in Crimea through U.S. correspondent banks, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter allegedly set up an account at now-defunct Malteste lender Satabank to receive payments from Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of an investigation by his father's political opponents, Malta Today reported, citing emails leaked from the younger Biden's laptop. More Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of failing to pay taxes and admit to illegal possession of a firearm to resolve a long-running...

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