{"id":111775,"date":"2026-08-05T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111775\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:53:12","slug":"analysis-why-ubs-banked-a-russian-billionaire-with-reported-ties-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111775\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Why UBS banked a Russian billionaire with reported ties to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s own \u2018negative news screening\u2019 process uncovered hundreds of media articles covering potentially shady practices.<\/p>\n<p>It has now emerged that UBS ignored claims that the billionaire:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785891192_108_phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent BACK in 2015, staff working at a US division of banking giant UBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[129],"tags":[54330,136,223,714],"class_list":["post-111775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ubs","tag-fincen","tag-russia","tag-ubs","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117040172724978708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}