NatWest fined £265m after bin bags of cash laundered

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NatWest has been fined over $300 million for failing to prevent money-laundering.

A court heard on Monday that a gold trading business deposited a large amount of cash into a NatWest branch.

The UK's financial watchdog said a criminal gang deposited huge sums of cash across 50 branches.

NatWest regrets failing to monitor the customer.

It is the first time a financial institution has faced criminal prosecution by the Financial Conduct Authority.

The judge said at the sentencing hearing that the fine was reduced because the bank had pleaded guilty.

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Alison Rose is the chief executive of NatWest.

NatWest, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland group, pleaded guilty to three money-laundering charges.

Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest, said that the bank takes its responsibility to prevent and detect financial crime extremely seriously.

We regret that we didn't adequately monitor one of our customers between 2012 and 2016 to prevent money-laundering.

She said that the bank would continue to invest in fighting financial crime even though the case had ended.

When Fowler Oldfield was taken on as a client by NatWest, they predicted an annual turnover of over 15 million dollars. It deposited over $350m over the course of five years.

The company, which was shut down after a police raid, was initially marked as "high-risk", but that was changed in December of 2013).

The amount of cash being deposited went up from November of last year, with figures reaching up to £1.8m a day. Fowler Oldfield was NatWest's most lucrative client.

Between January 2015 and March 2016 Southall received about £42m in cash, but no report was made that it was suspicious.

Lawyers said earlier on Monday that one person in the area arrived at a branch with so much cash that they broke and had to repack it.

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The method of transportation was chosen.

Ms Montgomery said that the cash didn't fit in the safes.

The lawyer for the FCA said earlier on Monday that NatWest did not look into many warnings generated by its systems.

Ms Montgomery said that the bank disabled the rule because it created too many alerts, and that NatWest also recorded cash deposits by Fowler Oldfield as cheques.

The court heard that the National Crime Agency was concerned about the high number of Scottish banknotes being deposited in England.

A NatWest cash centre in north-eastern England asked about the smell of Scottish bank notes, suggesting they may have been stored rather than used.

The judge said at the court on Monday that the bank was not involved in money-laundering.

The money could not have been laundered without the bank's failures.

Sara George, a partner at Sidley and a former prosecutor for the Financial Services Authority, told the BBC that there were failures at every level.

It's hard to imagine a more clear indication of criminal proceeds than black bin-liners of money. She said it was extraordinary.

She said that the case showed that the UK's financial watchdog was committed to using a full spread of its powers to stop money-laundering.

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