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.