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UPDATE 1-'FinCEN' documents reportedly show banks moved illicit funds -BuzzFeed, ICIJ

UPDATE 1-'FinCEN' documents reportedly show banks moved illicit funds -BuzzFeed, ICIJ

更新1-據報道“FinCEN”文件顯示銀行轉移了非法資金-BuzzFeed,ICIJ
路透社 ·  2020/09/21 04:16

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   Sept 20 (Reuters) - Several global banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over a period of nearly two decades, despite red flags about the origins of the money, BuzzFeed and other media reported on Sunday, citing confidential documents submitted by banks to the U.S. government.
   The reports were partly based on documents, called suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen). The SARs, which the reports said numbered more than 2,100, were obtained by BuzzFeed News and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media organizations.
   In all, the ICIJ reported that the files contained information about more than $2 trillion worth of transactions between 1999 and 2017, which were flagged by internal compliance departments of financial institutions as suspicious. The SARs are in themselves not necessarily proof of wrongdoing.
   Five global banks appeared most often in the documents — HSBC, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Bank of New York Mellon, the ICIJ reported.
   A bank has a maximum of 60 days to file SARs after the date of initial detection of a reportable transaction, according to the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The ICIJ report said in some cases the banks failed to report suspect transactions until years after they had processed them.
   The SARs also showed that banks often moved funds for companies that were registered in offshore havens, such as the British Virgin Islands, and did not know the ultimate owner of the account, the report said.
   Among the types of transactions highlighted by the report: funds processed by JPMorgan for potentially corrupt individuals and companies in Venezuela, Ukraine and Malaysia; money from a Ponzi scheme moving through HSBC; and money linked to a Ukrainian billionaire processed by Deutsche Bank.
   In a statement to Reuters, HSBC said "all of the information provided by the ICIJ is historical." The bank said as of 2012, "HSBC embarked on a multi-year journey to overhaul its ability to combat financial crime across more than 60 jurisdictions."
   Standard Chartered said in a statement to Reuters, "We take our responsibility to fight financial crime extremely seriously and have invested substantially in our compliance programmes."
   BNY Mellon told Reuters it could not comment on specific SARs. "We fully comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and assist authorities in the important work they do," the bank said.
   JPM did not immediately respond to a request for comment but said in a statement to BuzzFeed that "thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars are devoted to helping support law enforcement and national security efforts."
   Deutsche Bank said in a statement on Sunday that to the "extent that information referenced by the ICIJ is derived from SARs, it should be noted that this is information that is pro-actively identified and submitted by banks to governments pursuant to the law."
   FinCen said in a statement on its website on Sept. 1 that it was aware that various media outlets intended to publish a series of articles based on unlawfully disclosed SARs, as well as other documents, and said that the "unauthorized disclosure of SARs is a crime that can impact the national security of the United States."
   Representatives for the U.S. Treasury did not immediately respond to an email for comment on Sunday.

(Reporting by Megan Davies and Paritosh Bansal; Editing by
Steve Orlofsky and Daniel Wallis)
((megan.davies@thomsonreuters.com; +1 646 223 6190;)

(添加有關銀行的詳細信息,評論)路透9月20日電-BuzzFeed和其他媒體週日援引銀行提交給美國政府的機密文件報道,幾家全球銀行在近20年的時間裏轉移了大量涉嫌非法的資金,儘管這些資金的來源存在危險信號。這些報告部分是基於銀行和其他金融公司向美國財政部金融犯罪執法網絡(FinCEN)提交的名為可疑活動報告(SARS)的文件。報道稱,SARS的數量超過2100份,BuzzFeed News獲得了這些數據,並與國際調查記者聯盟(International Consortium Of Investigative Journers)和其他媒體組織分享了這些數據。ICIJ報告稱,這些文件總共包含了1999年至2017年期間價值超過2萬億美元的交易信息,這些交易被金融機構的內部合規部門標記為可疑。非典本身並不一定是不法行為的證據。ICIJ報道稱,文件中出現最頻繁的有五家全球銀行--匯豐銀行、摩根大通、德意志銀行、渣打銀行和紐約梅隆銀行。根據財政部貨幣監理署(Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency)的規定,銀行在最初檢測到一筆需要報告的交易後,最多有60天的時間提交SARS申請。ICIJ的報告稱,在某些情況下,銀行直到處理可疑交易數年後才報告可疑交易。報告稱,SARS還顯示,銀行經常為在英屬維爾京羣島等離岸避風港註冊的公司轉移資金,並不知道賬户的最終所有者。報告強調的交易類型包括:摩根大通為委內瑞拉、烏克蘭和馬來西亞的潛在腐敗個人和公司處理的資金;通過匯豐銀行(HSBC)進行的龐氏騙局;以及德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)處理的與一名烏克蘭億萬富翁有關的資金。匯豐銀行在給路透的聲明中稱,“ICIJ提供的所有信息都是歷史性的.”匯豐表示,截至2012年,“匯豐開始了一段為期數年的旅程,以徹底改革其在60多個司法管轄區打擊金融犯罪的能力。”渣打銀行(Standard Chartered)在給路透社(Reuters)的一份聲明中表示,“我們非常認真地對待打擊金融犯罪的責任,並在我們的合規項目上投入了大量資金。”紐約梅隆銀行告訴路透社,它不能對具體的SARS發表評論。該行表示:“我們完全遵守所有適用的法律法規,並協助有關部門開展重要工作。”摩根大通沒有立即回覆記者的置評請求,但在給BuzzFeed的一份聲明中表示,“數千名員工和數億美元致力於幫助支持執法和國家安全努力。”德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)週日在一份聲明中表示,“就ICIJ參考的信息來自SARS而言,應該指出的是,這是銀行根據法律主動識別並提交給政府的信息。”FinCEN於9月9日在其網站上發表聲明稱。1它意識到各媒體打算根據非法披露的SARS以及其他文件發表一系列文章,並表示“未經授權披露SARS是一種犯罪,可能會影響美國的國家安全”。週日,美國財政部的代表沒有立即回覆請其置評的電子郵件。(Megan Davies和Paritosh Bansal報道;編輯者:史蒂夫·奧爾洛夫斯基和丹尼爾·沃利斯)(megan.davies@thomsonreurs.com;+1 646 223 6190;)

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