Friday, January 24, 2014

Luxembourg's Clearstream Banking S.A. fined $152 million in the US





















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US Treasury fines Luxembourg Firm for Skirting Iran Sanctions (Miami Herald)

Clearstream Banking S.A. settled with the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over the allegations to have violated US Iran sanctions regulations. According to the Miami Herald: 
" Clearsteram provided the Government of Iran with substantial and unautherized access to the US financial system", OFAC Director Adam J. Szubin said in a statement.

Clearstream Banking will pay $152 million in a settlement according to the linked settlement agreement.



Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/23/3888448/treasury-fines-luxembourg-firm.html#storylink=cpy


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