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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€102,551Total of monetary amounts
€102,551Largest single case: Rogaland Sparebank
€102,551Median per case with an amount

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  1. Gulating lagmannsrett €102,551 100 % · 1 case

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1 case

27 Feb 2025 Rogaland SparebankRogaland Sparebank: NOK 1.2m fine for failing to freeze an account NorwayBreaches of sanctions and embargoes €102,551

Gulating lagmannsrett (Gulating Court of Appeal) sentenced Rogaland Sparebank (formerly Sandnes Sparebank) to a corporate fine of NOK 1,200,000 because in April and May 2020 the bank failed to freeze an account opened in the name of a person on the UN Al-Qaida sanctions list and booked 13 payments totalling NOK 45,828 to it; the bank must also pay NOK 50,000 in legal costs. Hordaland tingrett (district court) had initially acquitted the bank; on 21 May 2025 the appeals committee of the Høyesterett (Supreme Court) refused leave for the bank's appeal.

What organisations can take from it

Suspicious transaction reporting does not replace sanctions screening: funds of listed persons must be frozen immediately, even if the account was formally opened at the request of a third party.

Relevance to training and awareness

Freezing funds of sanctioned persons

Authority / court
Gulating lagmannsrett
Area of law
Sanctions and export control · Breaches of sanctions and embargoes
Legal basis
§ 2 lov om bindende FN-vedtak i. V. m. § 3 forskrift om sanksjoner mot ISIL (Da'esh) og Al-Qaida; §§ 27 und 28 straffeloven
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Mitigating circumstances
The bank discovered the matter itself, took measures and reported it to Økokrim and later to Finanstilsynet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; it gained nothing from the breach.
Liability of senior managers
According to the court of appeal, it is the responsibility of management and the board to staff the bank so that sanctions obligations are complied with.

Original amount 1,200,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Feb 2025.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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