correspondent banks used by Lloyds that might have otherwise been blocked or rejected due to sanctions regulations or for internal bank policy reasons.

This process of 'repairing' or 'stripping,' as Lloyds commonly referred to it, allowed more than $350 million in transactions to be processed by U.S. Specifically, according to court documents, Lloyds deliberately removed material information-such as customer names, bank names and addresses-from payment messages so that the wire transfers would pass undetected through filters at U.S. wire transfers that involved countries or persons on U.S. Under the IEEPA, it is a crime to willfully violate, or attempt to violate, any regulation issued under the act, including the Iranian Transactions Regulations, which prohibit exportation of services from the United States to Iran, and the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations, which prohibit exportation of services from the United States to Sudan.Īccording to court documents, beginning as early as 1995 and continuing until January 2007, Lloyds, in both the United Kingdom and Dubai, falsified outgoing U.S. Lloyds agreed to forfeit the funds as part of deferred prosecution agreements with the Department of Justice and the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Lloyds waived indictment, agreed to the filing of the information, and has accepted and acknowledged responsibility for its criminal conduct. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Lloyds with one count of violating the IEEPA. The violations relate to transactions Lloyds illegally conducted on behalf of customers from Iran, Sudan and other countries sanctioned in programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Controls.Ī criminal information was filed today in the U.S.

Morgenthau, District Attorney for the New York County District Attorney’s Office, announced today. WASHINGTON – Lloyds TSB Bank plc (Lloyds), a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London, has agreed to forfeit $350 million to the United States and to the New York County District Attorney’s Office in connection with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Doug Shulman and Robert M. In Connection with Violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act

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