By Dave Graham
THE Swiss attorney general’s office said it had imposed a $1 million fine on Morgan Stanley’s Swiss operations for failing to do enough to prevent one of its client advisors committing qualified money laundering in 2010.
In a statement, the office said the lender’s previous entity, Bank Morgan Stanley (Switzerland) AG, was liable for failing to stop the advisor laundering assets originally stemming from acts of bribery in Greece.
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