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US FINES MEGA ICBC NT$5.7B FOR VIOLATING MONEY LAUNDERING RULES|涉違洗錢法 兆
豐銀遭美重罰57億台幣


Mega International Commercial Bank Holding's New York branch, has been fined
NT$ 5.7 billion for violation of the United States' money laundering
regulations. Mega Bank emphasized that it was because in recent years, the US
has moved to counteract flow of foreign funds into bank as a
counter-terrorism measure, thus its money laundering requirements are more
stringent, than previously, hence the fine.


On Aug. 19, The New York State Department of Financial Services announced
that it had imposed a US$180 million fine on Mega Bank's New York branch. The
branch was judged to have breached the US' Bank Secrecy Act. The fine is
approximately NT$ 5.7 billion. The parent bank has called on all management
staff for an explanation.

==CHEN SUNG-HSIN Mega Financial Holding Co Vice President ==
We are not involved any money-laundering. It is due to this year's new
federal regulations being more stringent than the previous United States
money laundering act and regulations. So we had no way to meet it's upgrading
and specification requirements, so therefore we have been fined.

Mega Financial Holding Co executives repeatedly stressed that there was no
involvement in money laundering, but they had failed to inform the US of
capital flows as regulations require. It is understood that last year from
January through March, the New York State Department of Financial Services
undertook a general business inspection and found that in 2012 there were a
number of remittance transactions which they were not notified about. These
violated US bank secrecy laws and anti-money laundering laws. The fine of
US$180 million, is the first for a Taiwan investment bank. Mega Financial
Holding Co President Hsu Kuang-hsi, flew to the US to get a handle on the
situation. Taiwan's Ministry of Finance believes that the fine is too heavy.

TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR





==兆豐金控副總經理 陳松興==
不涉及到任何洗錢的案子
它是今年的法規
跟之前美國聯邦
反洗錢法的法規來講
州政府這個新的法規
應該是說嚴格的程度
提升了非常的多
所以在這方面的話
我們沒有辦法滿足
它在提升 它的要求的規範
所以因此遭到這一份的處罰



==財政部國庫署組長 阮清華==
（兆豐金）紐約分行那邊
它沒有通報 他們就認定說
我們是在作業上是違規的
所以它這個是不是洗錢
其實還是要涉及到認定的問題



記者黃立偉 張國樑 台北報導


http://news.pts.org.tw/article/332409
來源：公視



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