The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday that Bank of China’s U.K. arm (BOC UK) agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle its potential civil liability for processing transactions in apparent violation of now-repealed Sudan sanctions regulations.

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