PRINT
ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION FOR February 8, 2016
Barclays Bank Plc Settles Potential Civil Liability for Apparent Violations of the Zimbabwe Sanctions Regulations: Barclays Bank Plc ("Barclays"), a financial institution headquartered in London, United Kingdom, has agreed to remit $2,485,890 to settle its potential civil liability for 159 apparent violations of § 541.201 of the Zimbabwe Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 541 (ZSR). From July 2008 to September 2013, Barclays processed 159 transactions totaling approximately $3,375,617 to or through financial institutions located in the United States – including Barclays’ New York branch ("Barclays NY") – for or on behalf of corporate customers of Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe Limited ("BBZ") that were owned 50 percent or more, directly or indirectly, by a person identified on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the "SDN List").
...
Click the appropriate link below for access to this file.
Click the appropriate link below for access to this file.
1) There is technically strict liability one way or the other, but this enforcement action builds on others in different contexts (see e.g. Barracuda Networks (2015), Stanley Drilling Equipment & Supply, Inc.(2012)) suggesting that automated screening will not suffice to meet OFAC's diligence expectations when there is "publicly available" information on the prohibited nature of a party and/or transaction. This also obviously suggests that the document provided by a customer in ordinary KYC procedures do not satisfy OFAC's diligence expectations.
2) As of the date on which the enforcement release was issued, this was the only enforcement action based on a person's failure to determine that a person was blocked pursuant to the 50% rule. See also Cobham Holdings, Inc. (2018).
Civil Enforcement Information - Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. (2013)...