Saturday, August 23, 2014

Low-risk bank accounts conduit for money laundering

............Finally, the branch manager decided to close her bank account. But he stopped. He was not sure what to do, especially since funds have already moved through his branch. The case indicates that there was ‘MONEY LAUNDERING’ going on under the Manager’s nose. Mrs  A was used as a mule against payment of some commission and the bank manager and staff were either inadequately trained or grossly negligent in ignoring the obvious red flags. The moral is that transactions in low income individual account should also be monitored with the same keen eyes as in other accounts and also.....

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