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Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

22cases from 12 jurisdictions
€265.1mTotal of monetary amounts (19 cases with an amount)
€113mLargest single case: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
€1.05mMedian per case with an amount

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22 cases

16 Sep 2026 Wallester ASFinancial supervisor orders Wallester to remedy governance and AML deficiencies EstoniaInternal controls Order

Following an on-site inspection, the Finantsinspektsioon (Estonian Financial Supervision Authority) issued an order requiring the payment institution Wallester to remedy, by 31 December, deficiencies in governance and control functions (separation of the lines of defence, internal rules), in safeguarding customer funds and in the staffing of its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing function. Date = publication of the press release.

What organisations can take from it

Fast-growing payment service providers must let their compliance, AML and internal audit functions grow with them in terms of staffing and organisation.

Authority / court
Finantsinspektsioon (Estnische Finanzaufsicht)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Aufsichtsrechtliche Anordnung (ettekirjutus) der Finantsinspektsioon
Action
Order
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
16 Sep 2026

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3 Aug 2026 UBS Financial Services Inc.FinCEN: 125 million USD against UBS Financial Services as a repeat offender USAInternal controls €108.4m

The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed 125 million USD on the broker-dealer – the highest BSA penalty against a broker-dealer to date. UBSFS admitted wilful infringements: the AML programme was inadequate, more than 50,000 foreign currency transfers totalling more than 10 billion USD were not adequately monitored and suspicious activity reports were not filed; it is already the second enforcement action after 2018.

What organisations can take from it

Monitoring gaps left unremedied after an earlier enforcement action lead, the second time round, to a multiple of the original penalty.

Authority / court
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Culpability
intentional
Repeat case
yes
Mitigating circumstances
Up to 15 million USD (remaining amount due by 31 May 2028) may be waived to the extent that UBSFS bears the costs of the independent review of its AML programme and implements its recommendations
Published
3 Aug 2026

Original amount 125,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 3 Aug 2026.

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11 Mar 2026 Birks Group Inc.FINTRAC: jeweller Birks sanctioned over missing risk assessment and compliance review CanadaInternal controls €32,755

The nationwide jewellery chain (a dealer in precious metals and stones) received a penalty of 51,562.50 CAD from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) because written compliance policies were lacking or not applied, the money laundering risk was not assessed and documented, and the prescribed two-yearly effectiveness review was not carried out. Birks has appealed to the Federal Court.

What organisations can take from it

Jewellers, too, must maintain a documented compliance programme with a risk assessment and regular effectiveness reviews.

Authority / court
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, Part 1, und zugehörige Verordnungen
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
under appeal
Sector
Retail and e-commerce
Published
5 May 2026

Original amount 51,562.5 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Mar 2026.

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27 Feb 2026 MBaer Merchant Bank AGFINMA withdraws MBaer Merchant Bank's licence over serious anti-money laundering deficiencies SwitzerlandInternal controls Order

Following enforcement proceedings, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) found serious, systematic deficiencies in anti-money laundering due diligence, organisation and risk management; the bank enabled clients to circumvent official asset freezes and executed transactions for sanctioned persons. FINMA had withdrawn the bank's licence and ordered its liquidation; with the withdrawal of the appeal before the Federal Administrative Court, the orders took effect on 27 February 2026. The day before, FinCEN had proposed designating the bank as an institution of primary money laundering concern.

What organisations can take from it

Systematic anti-money laundering and sanctions deficiencies can cost a bank its licence – not just money.

Authority / court
Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Schweizer Geldwäschereirecht und Bankenaufsichtsrecht (laut FINMA)
Action
Order
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
50 to 249
Published
27 Feb 2026
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10 Feb 2026 Paxful Holdings Inc.Crypto platform Paxful: 4 million USD penalty after guilty plea to BSA infringements USAInternal controls €3.36m

Following a guilty plea to charges including conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and to violate the AML obligations of the Bank Secrecy Act, the peer-to-peer crypto platform was sentenced to a penalty of 4 million USD. 112.5 million USD would have been appropriate, but the US Department of Justice (DOJ) found an inability to pay; in December 2025, FinCEN had additionally imposed a civil penalty of 3.5 million USD.

What organisations can take from it

Crypto platforms without registration and KYC face criminal liability – up to the limit of their ability to pay.

Authority / court
U.S. Department of Justice
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Travel Act; Verschwörung zum Betrieb eines nicht lizenzierten Geldtransfergeschäfts und zur Verletzung der AML-Pflichten des Bank Secrecy Act
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Culpability
intentional
Mitigating circumstances
Penalty limited from 112.5 million to 4 million USD because of proven inability to pay
Published
11 Feb 2026

Original amount 4,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Feb 2026.

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28 Jan 2026 CCV Group B.V.Netherlands: payment institution CCV without integrity risk analysis – 406,125 EUR fine NetherlandsInternal controls €406,125

Until March 2018, the payment institution had no systematic integrity risk analysis (SIRA) and therefore no systematic identification and analysis of integrity risks for its gatekeeper function. The Dutch central bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) imposed the fine in 2020; following objection and appeal proceedings, it was fixed at the reduced amount of 406,125 EUR by the decision of 28 January 2026 and was published in July 2026.

What organisations can take from it

Without a documented integrity risk analysis, any money laundering prevention lacks its foundation – and that alone is subject to fines.

Authority / court
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 3:10 Wet op het financieel toezicht (Wft); Art. 10 Besluit prudentiële regels Wft (Bpr)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
reduced
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
Fine reduced in the objection and appeal proceedings
Published
21 Jul 2026
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27 Nov 2025 Manor Windsor Realty Ltd.FINTRAC: estate agent Manor Windsor Realty without AML training programme – 107,250 CAD CanadaInternal controls €65,907

The estate agency in Windsor (Ontario) received a penalty of 107,250 CAD from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) for four violations: no up-to-date, approved compliance policies, no assessment of the money laundering risk, no written ongoing training programme and no effectiveness review of the compliance programme. The company has appealed to the Federal Court.

What organisations can take from it

For estate agents, a missing written training programme is a separate violation subject to penalties.

Relevance to training and awareness

AML training programme for estate agents

Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.

Authority / court
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, Part 1, und zugehörige Verordnungen
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
under appeal
Sector
Construction and real estate
Published
12 Feb 2026

Original amount 107,250 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Nov 2025.

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5 Nov 2025 Coinbase Europe LimitedIreland: 21.5 million EUR against Coinbase Europe – 30 million transactions unchecked IrelandInternal controls €21.5m

In a settlement of 5 November 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland imposed a reprimand and 21,464,734 EUR (after a 30% discount on 30,663,906 EUR) for breaches of transaction monitoring obligations between April 2021 and March 2025: because of configuration errors in the monitoring system, more than 30 million transactions worth over 176 billion EUR – around 31% of all transactions – were not properly monitored over a period of twelve months. The subsequent review took almost three years and led to 2,708 suspicious transaction reports; the High Court confirmed the sanction on 12 January 2026, and it is the Central Bank's first enforcement action in the crypto sector.

What organisations can take from it

Test monitoring rules regularly for complete coverage – a silent configuration error can go undetected for years.

Authority / court
Central Bank of Ireland
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
30% settlement discount
Published
6 Nov 2025
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28 Oct 2025 Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba)BaFin: fine against Helaba over inadequate monitoring systems for money laundering prevention GermanyInternal controls €20,000

By decision of 28 October 2025 (final since 7 November 2025), Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) imposed a fine of 20,000 EUR because, from October 2022 to September 2023, the Landesbank operated data processing systems for money laundering prevention that were only partially adequate. Under the German Banking Act (KWG), the criteria by which monitoring identifies suspicious transactions must be documented, and the systems must be checked regularly by an independent auditor.

What organisations can take from it

Transaction monitoring needs documented indicators and a regular independent quality review – the mere existence of software is not enough.

Authority / court
Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
§ 56 Abs. 2 Nr. 11b KWG (Betrieb angemessener Datenverarbeitungssysteme zur Geldwäscheprävention)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
10 Dec 2025

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22 Aug 2025 Bank J. Safra Sarasin AGBank J. Safra Sarasin: 3.5 million CHF fine for money laundering in the Petrobras complex SwitzerlandInternal controls €3.73m

Between 2011 and 2014, the bank did not take all the necessary organisational precautions, with the result that bribes flowed to Petrobras executives through several account relationships (around 71 million USD in attempted or completed aggravated money laundering). Fine of 3.5 million CHF; because of a settlement of 16 million CHF with Petrobras, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft, OAG) waived a compensation claim. A former asset manager was separately given a suspended prison sentence.

What organisations can take from it

Unusual payment flows involving clients close to PEPs must be escalated and, if necessary, rejected – responsibility lies with the bank as an organisation.

Relevance to training and awareness

Anti-money laundering and PEP clients

Authority / court
Bundesanwaltschaft
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis Abs. 1 und 2 StGB
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
Time elapsed since the offence, organisational corrective measures after the affair became known; no compensation claim because of the payment of 16 million CHF to Petrobras.
Liability of senior managers
A former asset manager was separately given a suspended prison sentence of six months for aggravated money laundering (offences committed at another Swiss bank).
Published
22 Aug 2025

Original amount 3,500,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Aug 2025.

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25 Jul 2025 DMCL Chartered Professional AccountantsFINTRAC: accountancy firm DMCL without compliance programme – 72,750 CAD CanadaInternal controls €45,370

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) imposed 72,750 CAD on the auditing and accountancy firm with four offices in British Columbia: approved written compliance policies, a documented risk assessment and the prescribed two-yearly effectiveness review were all lacking. The penalty was paid.

What organisations can take from it

Firms that handle money movements for clients are themselves obliged entities and need their own AML programme.

Authority / court
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, Part 1, und zugehörige Verordnungen
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Other
Published
9 Oct 2025

Original amount 72,750 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Jul 2025.

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24 Jun 2025 Banca Privata Leasing SpaBanca d'Italia: 60,000 EUR against Banca Privata Leasing over deficiencies in AML organisation ItalyInternal controls €60,000

An on-site inspection from February to May 2024 revealed deficiencies in organisation and internal controls relating to customer profiling, due diligence obligations and active cooperation (suspicious transaction reports). The Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia) imposed an administrative fine of 60,000 EUR, taking into account the corrective measures taken.

What organisations can take from it

Sound customer profiling is the basis for risk-appropriate due diligence and reporting.

Authority / court
Banca d'Italia
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 62 d.lgs. 231/2007; Verstöße gegen Art. 7, 16–20, 24, 25, 35, 36 d.lgs. 231/2007
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
Corrective measures taken

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20 Jun 2025 Saxony: 7,000 EUR fine against art dealer over due diligence obligations and risk management GermanyInternal controls €7,000

The Saxony State Directorate (Landesdirektion Sachsen), as anti-money laundering supervisor for the non-financial sector, imposed a fine of 7,000 EUR on an art dealer, announced in anonymised form, for breaches of the due diligence obligations and risk management requirements under the German Money Laundering Act (GwG). The authority had previously issued several orders on risk management in the art trade, backed by the threat of penalty payments.

What organisations can take from it

Art dealers need a written risk analysis and must identify buyers for transactions of 10,000 EUR or more.

Relevance to training and awareness

AML obligations in the art trade

Authority / court
Landesdirektion Sachsen (Geldwäscheaufsicht Nichtfinanzsektor)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Geldwäschegesetz (Sorgfaltspflichten, Risikomanagement); Bekanntmachung nach § 57 GwG
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Retail and e-commerce

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17 Jun 2025 Banque Pictet et Cie SABanque Pictet: 2 million CHF fine for laundering Petrobras bribes SwitzerlandInternal controls €2.13m

Between 2010 and 2013, an asset manager at the bank validated 54 transfers through which bribes of around 4.1 million USD connected with SBM Offshore's charter contracts with Petrobras were concealed. The bank had not classified high-risk accounts as such and had inadequately monitored transfers; the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft) imposed a fine of 2 million CHF, and the former employee received a suspended prison sentence.

What organisations can take from it

Risk classification and transaction monitoring must take effect before individual relationship managers approve payments.

Relevance to training and awareness

High-risk clients and transaction monitoring

Authority / court
Bundesanwaltschaft
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis und Art. 322septies StGB
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
Time elapsed since the offence, very good cooperation, organisational corrective measures after the Petrobras affair became known.
Liability of senior managers
Former asset manager: suspended prison sentence of six months (probation period of two years).
Published
17 Jun 2025

Original amount 2,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jun 2025.

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1 Apr 2025 OKCoin Europe LimitedMalta: 1.05 million EUR against crypto exchange OKCoin Europe over anti-money laundering deficiencies MaltaInternal controls €1.05m

During an on-site examination in 2023, the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) found deficiencies at the crypto service provider in its business risk assessment (including product risks), customer risk assessment, customer profiles, ongoing monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting and record-keeping. It imposed 1,054,269 EUR and a follow-up directive; the fine was open to appeal at the time of publication.

What organisations can take from it

Crypto providers are held to the same due diligence standards as banks – the risk assessment must cover their own products.

Relevance to training and awareness

Anti-money laundering for crypto-assets

Authority / court
Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Reg. 5(1), 5(4), 5(5), 7, 11, 15(3), 21 PMLFTR; FIAU Implementing Procedures
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
3 Apr 2025

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4 Mar 2025 MAKI podjetje za turizem, trgovino in storitve d.o.o. KoperBureau de change MAKI: transaction limit of 1,000 EUR over unresolved anti-money laundering deficiencies SloveniaInternal controls Order

During a follow-up inspection, Banka Slovenije (Bank of Slovenia) found that the company had not remedied the anti-money laundering deficiencies it had been ordered to address in 2023; some infringements are considered serious. It limited transactions to 1,000 EUR per customer per day, ordered monthly reports and set a deadline of 30 June 2025.

What organisations can take from it

Supervisory orders that are not implemented lead to business restrictions – working through them requires responsible persons and deadline control.

Relevance to training and awareness

Anti-money laundering in small financial service providers

Authority / court
Banka Slovenije
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 164 ZPPDFT-2, Art. 280 ZBan-3, Art. 42.a ZBS-1
Action
Order
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Repeat case
yes

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27 Feb 2025 Morgan Stanley (Switzerland) GmbHMorgan Stanley (Switzerland): 1 million CHF fine for organisational deficiency in money laundering case SwitzerlandInternal controls €1.06m

In 2010, the company's legal predecessor did not take all necessary and reasonable organisational precautions to prevent a relationship manager from committing aggravated money laundering with assets derived from bribery offences in Greece. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft) concluded the proceedings with a summary penalty order of 1 million CHF.

What organisations can take from it

Under corporate criminal law, organisational deficiencies do not become time-barred when the employee leaves – controls must be demonstrably effective.

Authority / court
Bundesanwaltschaft
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis StGB
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
27 Feb 2025

Original amount 1,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Feb 2025.

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9 Jan 2025 Arian Financial LLPFCA: small broker Arian Financial fined over cum-ex money laundering risks United KingdomInternal controls €344,791

From January to September 2015, the broker had no effective systems against financial crime and was therefore exposed to the risk of facilitating fraudulent trading and money laundering in connection with cum-ex trades. Following proceedings before the Upper Tribunal, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set the fine at £288,962.53 instead of the £744,745 originally intended.

What organisations can take from it

Even small brokers must question unusually lucrative, circular trading patterns before executing them.

Relevance to training and awareness

Recognising warning signs in unusual trading structures

Authority / court
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
FCA Principles 2 und 3 (PRIN 2, PRIN 3)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
reduced
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
Reduction by the Upper Tribunal
Published
10 Jan 2025

Original amount 288,962.53 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Jan 2025.

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10 Oct 2024 The Toronto-Dominion BankFederal Reserve: 123.5 million USD against Toronto-Dominion Bank over AML oversight failure USAInternal controls €113m

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System imposed 123.5 million USD on the Canadian parent company because it neglected risk management and oversight of its US retail business, so that a US subsidiary was used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars. TD must move the AML programme to the US and commission an independent review of the board and management; the sanctions of all authorities involved (DOJ, FinCEN, OCC) add up to around 3.09 billion USD.

What organisations can take from it

Parent companies are responsible for effective AML oversight of their foreign business – failures there can lead to sanctions running into billions.

Authority / court
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
US-Anti-Geldwäschegesetze (laut Federal Reserve)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Liability of senior managers
Independent review of board and management ordered
Published
10 Oct 2024

Original amount 123,500,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Oct 2024.

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10 Jan 2024 Lombard International Assurance S.A.Lombard International Assurance: 1.68 million EUR over missing overall money laundering risk assessment LuxembourgInternal controls €1.68m

During an inspection in 2021/2022, the Commissariat aux Assurances (Luxembourg insurance supervisory authority, CAA) found that the life insurer had not prepared an overall assessment of its money laundering risks, that guidance for employees on due diligence obligations (beneficial owners, high-risk countries, PEPs) was inadequate and that it was not checked whether the intermediaries used fulfilled their due diligence obligations. It imposed 1,682,000 EUR.

What organisations can take from it

Without a documented overall risk assessment, a risk-based approach cannot be demonstrated – intermediaries must also be monitored.

Relevance to training and awareness

Due diligence obligations regarding beneficial owners and PEPs

Authority / court
Commissariat aux Assurances (CAA)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
Legal basis
Loi modifiée du 12 novembre 2004 (LBC/FT), Art. 2-1, 2-2, 8-4, 8-5; Règlement CAA 20/03
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Published
20 Mar 2024

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