MetLife subsidiary fined $178K by OFAC for issuing premiums to Iran-controlled entities
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Aaron Nicodemus2024-11-18T20:43:00
A subsidiary of MetLife will pay more than $178,000 for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran when it provided insurance policies to entities in the United Arab Emirates owned or controlled by Iran.
The subsidiary, American Life Insurance Company (ALICO), committed 2,331 violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced in a press release Thursday. ALICO self-reported the violations, and OFAC considered them not egregious.
The violations occurred when an ALICO sales agent overrode or disregarded red flags generated by its sanctions compliance program that indicated that the three entities–one owned by the Iranian Embassy in the UAE, a school with “Iranian” in the title, and another school–were indeed controlled by Iran.
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