Regulator gives rap on knuckles to bank with reputation 'issues'

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Latvia's Trasta Komercbanka has been "warned" by the financial regulator the Financial and Capital Markets Commission (FKTK) over its poor reputation and faults with its credit risk practices, FKTK said in a press release Thursday.

"The FKTK Board has decided to issue a warning to Trasta Komercbanka over weaknesses in its credit risk inspections and significant reputational and credit risk assessment of individual transactions," FKTK said.

However, the punishment extended no further than a warning.

Certainly Trasta Komercbanka hs had reputational issues over a period of many years having been connected to the highly irregular purchase of a Ukrainian oil rig at a grossly inflated price, transactions linked to the murder of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and a remarkable €20 billion scam that siphoned off a significant chunk of Moldova's GDP. 

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