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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Standard Chartered Bank
Current Parent Company: Standard Chartered
Penalty: $113,500,000
Year: 2012
Date: December 10, 2012
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: economic sanction violation
Mega-Scandal: Sanctions Violations
Violation Description: Standard Chartered bank agreed to pay $113.5 million to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as part of a deferred prosecution agreement settling allegations that it transferred money from sanctioned foreign clients into the U.S. This was part of a larger $227 million agreement involving the the U.S. Department of Justice; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here).
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Manhattan (NY) District Attorney
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: deferred prosecution agreement
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: New York
Facility County: New York
Facility City: New York
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: banking
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.