French Bank to Face Lawsuit Over Alleged Assistance in Sudan Genocide
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A US judge has ruled that BNP Paribas, a French bank, is to face a lawsuit for allegedly assisting Sudan’s previous dictatorship in carrying out the Darfur Genocide, as well as other abuses in Sudan and South Sudan. The lawsuit is a class action lawsuit, originally filed in 2016, that has been brought against BNP by refugees living in the US that had fled Darfur, South Sudan, and areas of central Sudan. The lawsuit accuses BNP of helping the government to commit the genocide by financing them between 1997 and 2011, in direct violation of US sanctions. This present lawsuit is not the first time that BNP has faced repercussions for violating US sanctions. In 2014, after a several year long investigation, BNP pleaded guilty in a New York state court to conspiracy, falsifying business records, as well as money-laundering. The charges largely stemmed from the upwards of 100 billion USD that BNP had laundered for Iran, Cuba, and Sudan, three nations that were under US sanctions at the time. After pleading guilty, the US Department of Justice stuck BNP with an 8.97 billion dollar fine, which is the largest ever fine to have been instated for a violation of US sanctions.
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