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Senate Report: European Bank Exposed U.S. Financial System to Iran
(Fox News) A report released Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations charged that Europe's largest bank, London-based HSBC, exposed the U.S. financial system to potentially illicit transactions involving Iran and other countries as well as money laundering by Mexican drug cartels. Two affiliates for years sent thousands of transactions through the bank's key U.S. affiliate, HBUS, "without disclosing links to Iran" even though they were supposed to. For that period from 2001 to 2007, an auditor so far has uncovered nearly 25,000 such transactions involving billions of dollars.