{"id":28945,"date":"2017-01-19T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T00:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28945"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T00:43:09","slug":"western-union-admits-money-laundering-and-consumer-fraud-violations-will-forfeit-586-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28945","title":{"rendered":"Western Union Admits Money Laundering and Consumer Fraud Violations, Will Forfeit $586 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">LOS ANGELES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13046 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Courthouse Los Angeles\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" 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14pt;\">Western Union admits to criminal violations, including willfully failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0and aiding and abetting wire fraud, according to the Department of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to admissions and the evidence, between 2004 and 2012, Western Union violated U.S. laws \u2013 the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-fraud statutes \u2013 by processing hundreds of thousands of transactions for Western Union agents and others involved in an international consumer fraud scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the scheme, fraudsters contacted victims in the United States and falsely posed as family members in need or promised prizes or job opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The fraudsters directed the victims to send money through Western Union<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">to help their relative or claim their prize. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Various Western Union agents were complicit in these fraud schemes, often processing the fraud payments for the fraudsters in return for a cut of the fraud proceeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Western Union knew of the fraud schemes but failed to take action against it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Beginning in at least 2004, Western Union recorded customer complaints about fraudulently induced payments in what are known as consumer fraud reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2004, Western Union\u2019s Corporate Security Department proposed global guidelines for discipline and suspension of Western Union agents that engaged in fraud transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In these guidelines, the Corporate Security Department effectively recommended automatically suspending any agent that paid 15 Consumer Fraud Reports within 120 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Had Western Union<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0implemented these proposed guidelines, it would have prevented significant fraud losses to victims and would have resulted in corrective action against more than 2,000 agents worldwide between 2004 and 2012, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Court documents also show Western Union\u2019s BSA failures spanned eight years and involved, among other things, the acquisition of a significant agent that Western Union\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">knew prior to the acquisition had an ineffective MWWoney Laundering program and had contracted with other agents that were facilitating significant levels of consumer fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite this knowledge, Western Union moved forward with the acquisition and did not remedy the AML failures or terminate the high-fraud agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Similarly, Western Union failed to terminate or discipline agents who repeatedly violated the BSA and Western Union policy through their structuring activity in the Central District of California, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, New York City and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The BSA requires financial institutions, including money services businesses such as <\/span>Western Union<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, to file currency transaction reports (CTRs) for transactions in currency greater 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Rather than taking corrective action to eliminate structuring at and by its agents, Western Union<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, among other things, allowed agents to continue sending transactions through Western Union\u2019s system and paid agents bonuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite repeated compliance reviews identifying suspicious or illegal behavior by its agents, Western Union almost never identified those agents as the subjects of required reports to law enforcement<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In California, an investigation by the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Field Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and local partners into Western Union\u2019s largest West Coast agent found that U.S. Shen Zhou International in Monterey Park sent more than $310 million in Western Union transactions to China \u2013 approximately 50 percent of which were structured. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The owner of Shen Zhou \u2013 Zhihe \u201cFrank\u201d Wang, 60, of Monterey Park \u2013 plead guilty late 2013 to one count of structuring international transactions to evade reporting requirement in Santa Ana federal court. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wang admitted making numerous transmission to China in $2,500 amounts, which is just below the $3,000 amount that triggers various Bank Secrecy reporting and record-keeping requirements for money transmitters, as well as the $10,000 amount that triggers CTR filings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite finding repeated violations of Western Union policies, Western Union took no disciplinary action against Shen Zhou beyond one 90-day probation in January 2006 during which Shen Zhou continued to process transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wang is currently scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge Andrew J. Guilford on June 5, at which time he will face a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Based on information uncovered in the Shen Zhou investigation, further investigation by the FBI into <\/span>Western Union<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> and its \u201cChina Corridor\u201d agents found widespread structuring violations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Despite the fact that these high-volume agents failed multiple compliance reviews and continued to aid their customers in illegal activity, Western Union took little to no discipline against the agents, continued to allow the agents to process money transfers and actively encouraged the China Corridor agents to expand their businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Between 2003 and 2012, the top five China Corridor agents in the United States structured hundreds of millions of dollars in Western Union transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLos Angeles defendant Wang\u2019s company was considered to be among the largest Western Union agents in the United States as over $310 million was sent to China in a span of five years, half of which was illegally structured and transmitted using false identification,\u201d said Deirdre Fike, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles Field Office. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adding,\u201cRather than ensuring their high volume agents were operating above-board, Western Union rewarded them without regard to the blatant lack of compliance and illegal practices taking place. This settlement should go a long way in thwarting the proceeds of illicit transactions being sent to China to fund human smuggling or drug trafficking, as well as to interrupt the ease with which scam artists flout U.S. banking regulations in schemes devised to defraud vulnerable Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn taking responsibility for their actions, Western Union has agreed to cooperate and forfeit more than $500 million for their role in circumventing Bank Secrecy Act reporting requirements,\u201d stated Anthony J. 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