papers, the bank admits to almost going out of its way to act as a financial clearinghouse for international pariahs and drug dealers. >> in late 2012, british banking giant accepted responsibility for a wide range of criminal activities. including illegally conducting hundreds of millions of dollars of interactions for iran, libya and other countries and allowing drug cartels to launder $8 million in drug trafficking money. >> these traffickers didn't have to try very hard. they would sometimes deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash in a single day, into a single account, using boxes as loretta said, designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller's windows. >> the department of justice proudly announced the bank agreed to pay total of $1.9 billion, which was a record fine. it amounted to five weeks worth of income for the bank and no criminal charges were announced. a decision attributed to

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