Sunday, March 29, 2015

Paypal to Pay $7.7m (£5.1m) For Allowing Illegal Payment, Violated Sanctions



According to Digital Marketing Agency,  PayPal has agreed to disagree in 5.1m payout to the US government for allowing illegal payments that violated sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan. According to The US Treasury Department, “   the payment firm had failed to adequately screen and prevent transactions through 7,000 transactions from someone listed by the US government as being involved in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
PayPal had already approved the scanning time payments. PayPal stated in the statement, “our company had reported the actual payment we had own between 2009 and 2013 to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac).”
PayPal representative told the BBC, “We have taken further actions and step to obey Ofac regulations with the introduction of real-time scanning of payments and improved processes.”  However, Paypal is neither admits nor denies that it had violated the sanctions.

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