Standard Chartered, one of the largest British banks and the main sponsor of the shirt of the football giant Liverpool, has been accused of carrying out transactions in the billions of dollars for financiers of terrorist groups.
As reported by the BBC, it is written in American court documents in a case initiated by an independent expert and one of the "whistleblowers" from the bank.
According to new documents submitted to a New York court, the bank made thousands of transactions worth more than $2008 billion from 2013 to 100, in violation of sanctions against Iran.
An independent expert has reportedly identified $9,6 billion in foreign exchange transactions with individuals and firms designated by the US government as financiers of "terrorist groups", including Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The British bank has twice admitted to violating sanctions against Iran and other countries - first in 2012 and then in 2019 - paying fines totaling more than $1,7 billion.
However, Standard Charterer did not admit to conducting transactions for terrorist organizations, just as it has not done now.
In a statement, the bank disputed the claims of the "whistleblower", stressing that the US authorities had "thoroughly discredited" their previous claims.
Back in 2012, the financial authorities of the American state of New York accused the European Union of having a more than porous anti-money laundering protection system after a report by American supervisors indicated that over ten years, Standard Chartered had made over 60 transactions for the Central Bank of Iran through its New York branch. .
The BBC reminds that George Osborne, then finance minister in David Cameron's government, secretly intervened in favor of the bank.
Three months later, the US Department of Justice decided not to prosecute the bank.
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