Fine paid to the Regulators who allowed dodgy deals in the first place !!! What !!! ????

Dodgy dealings in British bank

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 9:19a.m.

Laundering drug money, manipulating interest rates, and now breaking sanctions against Iran - the British banks have been excelling themselves. 

Standard Chartered is the latest lender to be charged with some dodgy dealings.

So what has Standard Chartered been accused of?

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http://www.3news.co.nz/Dodgy-dealings-in-British-bank/tabid/421/articleID/264577/Default.aspx

http://www.3news.co.nz/Business/WorldFinance.aspx

Standard Chartered fined $340 mn over Iran deals

August 15, 2012 10:17 AM 

By Angus McDowall

NEW YORK: Standard Chartered has settled allegations that it helped Iranian clients dodge U.S. sanctions, announcing a fine of $340 million from a New York banking watchdog.

The "civil penalty" disclosed Tuesday came amid allegations that the London-based bank hid 60,000 transactions with proscribed Iranian clients worth $250 billion over ten years.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/International/2012/Aug-15/184743-standard-chartered-reaches-$340-million-settlement-over-iran.ashx#ixzz23c3lamXX
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) 

With this story, I find it VERY interesting that the fine will be paid to the Regulatory body who was meant to be regulating all of these activities in the first place !!!  This particular article does not state this btw. but this was in a TV3 (NZ) report yesterday...  but haven't time to find it for you at the moment.  Have a look around.  The second link above links you to a lot of Finance Stories that our media is running currently.  Cheers.  Bron.