{"id":5602,"date":"2021-03-16T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuresandoptions.gr\/en\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:58:55","slug":"fca-starts-criminal-proceedings-against-natwest-plc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresandoptions.gr\/en\/fca-starts-criminal-proceedings-against-natwest-plc\/","title":{"rendered":"FCA starts criminal proceedings against NatWest Plc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced that it has commenced criminal proceedings against National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) in respect of offences under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2007\/2157\/contents\/made\">Money Laundering Regulations 2007<\/a> (MLR 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FCA alleges that NatWest failed to adhere to the requirements of regulations 8(1), 8(3) and 14(1) of MLR 2007 between 11 November 2011 and 19 October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These regulations require the firm to determine, conduct and demonstrate risk sensitive due diligence and ongoing monitoring of its relationships with its customers for the purposes of preventing money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case arises from the handling of funds deposited into accounts operated by a UK incorporated customer of NatWest. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuresandoptions.gr\/en\/fca-fines-charles-schwab-uk-8-96-million-over-safeguarding-and-compliance-failures\/\">FCA<\/a> alleges that increasingly large cash deposits were made into the customer\u2019s accounts. It is alleged that around \u00a3365 million was paid into the customer\u2019s accounts, of which around \u00a3264 million was in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that NatWest&#8217;s systems and controls failed to adequately monitor and scrutinise this activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NatWest is scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on 14 April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first criminal prosecution under the MLR 2007 by the FCA and the first prosecution under the MLR against a bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No individuals are being charged as part of these proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCA has today announced that it has commenced criminal proceedings against National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) in respect of offences under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1431,1123,14,32],"tags":[1182,1491,1490,1489],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-finreg","category-financial-news","category-world","tag-money-laundering","tag-money-laundering-regulations","tag-national-westminster-bank","tag-natwest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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