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UniCredit Group Banks to pay $1.3B for sanctions violations
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-04-17T20:03:00
UniCredit Group Banks will pay total financial penalties of approximately $1.3 billion for processing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of an entity designated as a weapons of mass destruction proliferator and other Iranian entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions, the Department ...
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