知情人士透露，美国司法部正在调查围绕Euro Exchange Securities UK Ltd.的公司网络。该公司是一家支付公司，因可能违反反洗钱规定，于6月被英国当局接管。
The US Department of Justice is probing the network of companies around Euro Exchange Securities UK Ltd., a payments firm that UK authorities seized in June for potentially breaching anti-money-laundering rules.
知情人士称，司法部已向负责监督Euro Exchange清算的法院委任管理人索取信息，并向其位于波多黎各的关联公司Banex International Bank Inc.发出了传票。因程序未公开，知情人士要求匿名。
The DOJ has requested information from the court-appointed administrators overseeing the wind-down of Euro Exchange and issued a subpoena to Banex International Bank Inc., a related company in Puerto Rico, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named as the process isn’t public.
英国金融行为监管局上个月对Euro Exchange可能存在的违规行为展开了调查。该监管机构此前曾于6月强迫这家总部位于伦敦的公司停止开展受监管的业务，称其存在“不可接受的洗钱风险”，并在随后一周将该公司推入破产管理程序——这是一种英国的破产形式。
The Financial Conduct Authority opened an investigation into possible offenses at Euro Exchange last month. The regulator had forced the London-based firm to stop carrying out regulated activities in June, alleging that it presented “unacceptable money-laundering risks,” before pushing the firm into administration — a UK form of insolvency — a week later.
金融行为监管局的数据显示，Euro Exchange是英国电子货币机构（简称EMI）之一。这类监管宽松的支付公司去年每天处理约43亿英镑（合57亿美元）的交易。该监管机构批准了大量此类机构运营，但在近年来开始担忧该行业充斥着欺诈和糟糕的反犯罪控制措施。
Euro Exchange is among the UK’s electronic-money institutions, or EMIs, lightly-regulated payments companies that processed about £4.3 billion ($5.7 billion) of transactions every day last year, FCA data show. The regulator approved scores of them to operate yet has become concerned in recent years that the sector is rife with fraud and poor anti-crime controls.
美国司法部的一位发言人拒绝置评，理由是奉行既不证实也不否认正在进行的调查存在的政策。
A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment, citing a policy of neither confirming nor denying the existence of ongoing investigations.
文件显示，Euro Exchange和Banex是由总部位于迈阿密的商人路易斯·加斯帕里尼控制的一组公司的一部分。他没有回应置评请求。
Euro Exchange and Banex are part of a group of companies controlled by Miami-based businessman Luis Gasparini, filings show. He didn’t respond to requests for comment.
负责监督Euro Exchange破产管理的Teneo Inc.的一位发言人拒绝置评。金融行为监管局的一位发言人也没有置评。
A spokesperson for Teneo Inc., which is overseeing the Euro Exchange administration, declined to comment. A spokesperson for the FCA also didn’t comment.
据彭博社报道，这家英国公司在被接管前的12个月期间处理了21亿英镑的交易，其中几乎全部是代表仅14名被其评估为具有洗钱“高风险”的客户进行的。
The UK firm processed £2.1 billion of transactions during a 12-month period before its seizure, almost all on behalf of just 14 clients that it had assessed as posing a “high risk” of money laundering, Bloomberg has reported.
波多黎各监管机构上个月接管了Banex，称该公司已资不抵债，并存在“严重的财务、运营、会计和控制缺陷”。金融机构专员办公室（简称OCIF）还指控加斯帕里尼挪用了储户资金，包括通过1400万美元的贷款以及用于信用卡和俱乐部会费的独立支付。
Regulators in Puerto Rico seized Banex last month, describing the company as insolvent and carrying “serious financial, operational, accounting and control deficiencies.”The Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions, or OCIF, also alleged that depositors’ funds had been misappropriated by Gasparini, including through $14 million of loans and separate payments for credit cards and club dues.
OCIF在一份行政投诉中写道：“其剩余的流动资产过去一直、且现在继续被用于为加斯帕里尼先生个人利益而进行的垫款、转账和支付所消耗。”
“Its remaining liquid assets have been and continue to be consumed by advances, transfers and payments made for the personal benefit of Mr. Gasparini,” OCIF wrote in an administrative complaint.