French bank Societe Generale agrees to pay $1.3 billion for sanctions violations

Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors in New York charged French investment bank Societe Generale with conspiring to violate the Trading with the Enemy Act for processing billions of dollars in transactions for Cuban banks. Societe Generale agreed to pay a $1.3 billion fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement. …

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