“Money laundering, moreover, is not the only concern we as law enforcement have when we talk about protecting the integrity of our banks. Indeed, we have been equally vigilant about going after those banks that have, for their own profit, purposefully violated U.S. sanctions against certain countries – sanctions that are meant not only to protect our banks, but also to affirmatively block specific countries from using our financial institutions. Last year, for example, Credit Suisse admitted to systematically evading – over the course of a decade – U.S. sanctions against Iran, Sudan, Burma, Libya, and Cuba. Credit Suisse set up a system – some might even call it a business plan – to deceive the United States by disguising its U.S. dollar clearing on behalf of countries that the United States had banned from our financial system. The bank’s actions ranged from stripping out the word “Iran” from payment messages, to substituting code words for Iranian customer names, to hand-checking payment messages from Iran to ensure that they had been formatted to avoid U.S. sanctions filters. Credit Suisse even advised and trained the sanctioned entities on how to avoid automated filters at U.S. banks. In essence, evading our banking regulations was a service offered by Credit Suisse to sanctioned countries. As a result, Credit Suisse illegally moved hundreds of millions of dollars through the American financial system. As part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department relating to this conduct, Credit Suisse forfeited $536 million dollars to the government.” - - Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, Excerpt from Keynote Address at Money Laundering Enforcement Conference
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