A US judge on Thursday accepted Danske Bank’s guilty plea to a bank fraud conspiracy charge and agreement to pay more than $2 billion to end probes into anti-money laundering failures in a now-shuttered branch in Estonia.
US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald accepted the plea at a hearing in Manhattan federal court, with Danske’s senior general counsel in attendance.
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