Two former employees of Standard Chartered say they were ignored and eventually fired when they reported accounts at the bank that looked fishy to them — accounts they suspected were violating US sanctions against Iran. But as BuzzFeed News reporter Richard Holmes explains in Episode 4 of Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files, there was someone else who thought many of the accounts were suspect enough to report to FinCEN: the bank itself.
If you haven’t listened to Episode 1, start there! And you can find more of our FinCEN Files coverage, including on Standard Chartered, at fincenfiles.com.
Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files
A five-part podcast investigation into how the most powerful banks in the world facilitate the worst of humanity.
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