Fraud

Global bank HSBC has agreed to pay €267.5 million (US$331.6 million) to the French treasury to settle a long-running case of alleged dividend tax payment fraud, Pascal Prache, the lead prosecutor at the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (Parquet National Financier – PNF), has said.

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