Sudan: BNP knowingly maintained its operations despite embargoes, according to investigators. “BNP Paribas decided to continue banking operations with Sudan in full knowledge of the facts,” write the French investigators in their first conclusions revealed by AFP.
In 2014, BNP was accused in the United States of having violated American embargoe in Sudan as well as in Cuba and Iran. The bank pleaded guilty and paid a record fine of nearly $8.9 billion.