Bank Regulator Drops Case Against Ex-Rabobank U.S. Compliance Chief

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to ‘reluctantly’ end a case allegedly involving a coverup

Rabobank NA was the California subsidiary of Netherlands-based Rabobank. A branch in Thousand Oaks, Calif., shown above in 2018, the year the bank pleaded guilty to conspiring to conceal its problems from the OCC.Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press

A U.S. banking regulator has dropped a case against a former Rabobank NA compliance chief who allegedly tried to cover up problems in the bank’s anti-money-laundering program, finding the judge in the case hadn’t given her a fair hearing.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it would “reluctantly” end its case against Laura Akahoshi, a onetime OCC employee who later worked as Rabobank’s compliance chief. She was accused of obstructing OCC efforts to investigate Rabobank by allegedly working to hide a critical report produced by an accounting firm.

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