NBC News reports that US officials investigating the Jordan-based Arab Bank have uncovered evidence that the bank served “dozens” of people connected to Hamas, Hezbollah and Al-Qaida.
The U.S. officials also tell NBC News that the U.S. bank regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), has now referred the Arab Bank case to the Justice Department’s terror-financing section for potential prosecution. A Justice Department spokesman would not comment.
The OCC matched the names of suspected terrorists against lists of Arab Bank customers, as well as others who sent or received wire transfers through the bank, and got hundreds of hits, the U.S. officials say.
In February, federal banking regulators forced the Arab Bank to shut down most of its American operations.
