US regulators have accused British bank, Standard Chartered, of behaving like a “rogue institution” and of laundering $250 billion from Iran, hiding the transactions for over a decade, a violation of US sanctions.
Over the past few weeks we’ve brought you several reports regarding the increasingly worrisome LIBOR scandal. The investigation into interest rate-rigging debacle is quickly snowballing and analysts have now begun wondering if “16 of the world’s largest banks have perpetrated the biggest fraud in history.”