A former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey’s attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since the Canadian lender paid a $3 billion fine.

TD Bank’s US arm pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to commit money laundering, becoming the first bank in the US to do so. It also is the largest bank to plead guilty to US Bank Secrecy Act program failures.

Regulators levied hefty fines, an asset cap and asked to install government-ordered monitors for, among other things, failures in TD’s compliance system that enabled laundering of up to $670 million from the sale of narcotics.

Dozens of people have been arrested or charged in the US in connection with money laundering involving TD in recent years.In the latest case, Leonardo Ayala, 24, who worked at a TD Bank outlet in Doral, Florida between February and November 2023, is accused of assisting a money laundering network by issuing dozens of debit cards for accounts opened in the names of shell companies in exchange for bribes, court documents show.
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