"UK Bank Standard Chartered Accused of Terrorist Financing"

Standard Chartered, a major UK bank, is accused in US court documents of conducting billions of dollars in transactions for entities funding terrorist groups like Hezbollah and al-Qaeda, breaching sanctions against Iran from 2008 to 2013. Despite previous fines and deferred prosecution agreements, new evidence from whistleblowers suggests the bank's misconduct was more extensive than previously disclosed. The bank disputes these claims, which US authorities had earlier deemed "meritless."