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France probes banking giant BNP Paribas for alleged complicity in Sudan crimes

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French prosecutors have opened an inquiry into banking giant BNP Paribas over claims of complicity in crimes against humanity, genocide and torture in Sudan, sources said Thursday.

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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which had filed a complaint against the French bank, announced on Twitter that an investigation had been opened, information confirmed to AFP by a judicial source.

A year ago almost to the day, nine Sudanese victims backed by rights groups including the FIDH filed a criminal complaint against BNP Paribas for allegedly facilitating crimes committed in Sudan between 2002 and 2008, particularly in the war-torn western region of Darfur.

It was considered the regimes “de facto central bank” at the time despite international sanctions, the FIDH said.

The judicial source said the investigation was opened on August 26 into “complicity in crimes against humanity, genocide and acts of torture and barbarism.”

The FIDH said last year that the complaint “marks the first attempt to hold the French bank criminally responsible for alleged complicity in international crimes committed in Sudan, and Darfur in particular.”

Sudanese authorities and leaders from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups, agreed to a historic peace agreement on August 31 in Juba aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict.

The United Nations estimates 300,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced since 2003.

In 2014, BNP Paribas pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to violate American sanctions against the governments of Sudan, Iran and Cuba, and agreed to a fine of $8.9 billion.

It was found guilty of going “to elaborate lengths to conceal prohibited transactions, cover its tracks, and deceive US authorities,” according to the US Department of Justice.

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