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AccessBank Liberia controversies

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  1. 2021

    Liberia fines Access Bank Liberia over suspicious transaction reporting

    Fine or penalty

    Liberia’s Financial Intelligence Unit fined Access Bank Liberia LRD$500,000 after finding that the bank had not filed Suspicious Transaction Reports as required.

    Source excerpt

    • The Financial Intelligence Unit of Liberia (FIU) has fined Access Bank Liberia Limited LRD$500,000.00 in keeping with the regulation on Suspicious Transaction Reporting for Financial Institutions section 3.2.(d)(i).
    • It was found during an inspection of Access Bank AML/CFT compliance that Access Bank Liberia had not file Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) as discovered by the team and also had not file any STR from January 2019 to the time of inspection.