ING's Belgian Unit Fined for Money-Laundering Violations
Belgian unit of ING Groep was fined $394,485 by the central bank of Belgium for violating legislation against money laundering.
(Bloomberg) -- The Belgian unit of ING Groep NV was fined 350,000 euros ($394,485) by the central bank of Belgium for violating legislation against money laundering.
ING Belgium was hit with the penalty on April 24, Julie Kerremans, a Brussels-based spokeswoman for the unit, said in an emailed statement on Sunday.
Kerremans was responding to a Bloomberg News request for comment on a July 13 report by Belgian newspaper De Standaard that ING Belgium had a link with a Russian customer whom the bank didn’t properly identify.
The paper said the case covered dates in 2000 and 2013.
To contact the reporters on this story: Jonathan Stearns in Brussels at jstearns2@bloomberg.net;Joost Akkermans in Amsterdam at jakkermans@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, ;Chad Thomas at cthomas16@bloomberg.net, Flavia Krause-Jackson, Tony Czuczka
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