Bank of America Settles NYC Probe
Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a New York City investigation into the banks anti-money-laundering procedures.
At a press conference, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said Bank of America failed to adequately assess the risk of certain customers. Morgenthau said a number of Brazilian money service businesses were conducting illegal transmittal operations through the account of a Uruguayan money remitter at a Bank of America branch on West 33rd Street in Manhattan.
Between May 2002 and April 2004, more than $3 billion through the account, which most of it originating from offshore shell companies chartered in Panama and the British Virgin Islands and controlled by the illegal Brazilian money service operations, he said.
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Venezuelas state development bank plans to open branches in Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti, the bank president said Wednesday.
We foresee opening offices in Haiti, Guatemala and Honduras, said Edgard Hernandez Behrens who heads the Bank of Economic and Social Development, or Bandes, which is 75 percent owned by the Venezuelan government.
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