By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent
BACK in 2015, staff working at a US division of banking giant UBS were trying to decide whether they should accept a Russian billionaire as a client.
The bank’s own ‘negative news screening’ process uncovered hundreds of media articles covering potentially shady practices.
It has now emerged that UBS ignored claims that the billionaire:
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