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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
€15.5mTotal of monetary amounts
€15.5mLargest single case: Svea Bank AB
€15.5mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

16 Dec 2025 Svea Bank ABSvea Bank: SEK 170m for failings in AML risk assessment and customer due diligence SwedenCustomer due diligence €15.5m

Finansinspektionen (FI, Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) issued Svea Bank a remark (anmärkning) and an administrative fine of 170,000,000 SEK. In the review period from 30 April 2022 to 1 May 2023 (business with legal entities), the general risk assessments were incomplete, customers were not risk-assessed as required, beneficial owners were not sufficiently identified, and enhanced due diligence on high-risk customers was omitted, insufficient or late in a large proportion of the cases reviewed. An earlier FI sanction of June 2022 for credit assessment failings was treated as only a minor aggravating factor because it concerned different obligations.

What organisations can take from it

The general money laundering risk assessment must cover every product and feed into customer risk assessment, otherwise all downstream due diligence measures are ineffective.

Relevance to training and awareness

Risk-based customer due diligence, identification of beneficial owners and enhanced due diligence for high-risk customers

Authority / court
Finansinspektionen (FI)
Area of law
Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
Legal basis
Lag (2017:630) om åtgärder mot penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism, u. a. 2 kap. 1–3 §§, 3 kap. 12 och 16 §§; 15 kap. 1 och 7 §§ lagen (2004:297) om bank- och finansieringsrörelse
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Repeat case
yes
Mitigating circumstances
The bank pointed to its cooperation and remediation; FI did not treat this as mitigating. No damage was known to FI; in an overall assessment FI did not classify the breaches as serious and therefore refrained from a warning or licence revocation.
Published
17 Dec 2025

Original amount 170,000,000 SEK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Dec 2025.

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

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