Standard Chartered Settles With New York For $340 Million

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG, New York Times
Tue, 08/14/2012 - 11:21am

New York’s top banking regulator had charged the British bank with laundering $250 billion in tainted money for Iranian clients.

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