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Weekly Roundup: Pakistani Lender Fined $225 Million for AML Failures, UN States Allegedly Helped North Korea Evade Sanctions, and More

New York's financial regulator fined Pakistan's Habib Bank more than $200 million and accepted the surrender of its state banking license for failing to tighten its anti-money laundering and sanctions controls despite repeated warnings over more than a decade, Bloomberg reported. More A leaked U.N. report alleges that several member states are helping North Korea evade international sanctions and recommended blacklisting a network of individuals, companies and banks in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East believed used by North Korea's intelligence agency, The Wall Street Journal said. More U.S. officials plan to propose new U.N. sanctions that would...

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