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U.S. Probes Citi Over Compliance With Money Laundering Laws
In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, a person walks past a Citibank location in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
(Reuters) – A federal grand jury is probing Citigroup Inc, including its Banamex USA affiliate, over compliance with the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act and regulations on money laundering, the company said.
In an annual filing on Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said the probe includes subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Citigroup, the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, also said Banamex USA had received a subpoena from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a civil agency.
The criminal probe follows other problems that have surfaced with Banamex, which operates Citigroup’s largest single consumer bank outside of the United States and has been portrayed by the company as a model of its global strategy.
Separately, Citigroup disclosed it had received a grand jury subpoena seeking information about two mortgage securities that were issued in the middle of 2007.
