Riggs Bank pleaded guilty Thursday to failing to report suspicious transactions in the accounts of foreigners, including ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and agreed to a $16 million fine. In its efforts to win foreign political figures' business, the old-line Washington bank failed to exercise oversight and aided their illegitimate use of the bank, prosecutors said. If approved by a judge, the fine would be the largest criminal penalty ever imposed on a bank of Riggs' size, said prosecutors.
January 28, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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