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This table contains information about FSA fines published during 2012. Total amount of fines is £32,510,702.

Amount Company or person fined Date What was the fine for? Compensation

£525,000

Habib Bank AG Zurich

15/05/12

For anti-money laundering control failings.

 

£17,500

Syed Hussain

15/05/12

For anti-money laundering control failings.

 

£335,204

Donald Morgan

11/05/12

For insurance fraud.

 

£3,500,000

Martin Currie Investment Management Limited and Martin Currie Inc

10/05/12

For failing to manage a conflict of interest between two of its clients.

 
£3,345,000 Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (Europe) Ltd (MSIEu) 08/05/12 For serious corporate governance failings.  
£119,303 Yohichi Kumagai 08/05/12 For failing to ensure that MSIEu’s corporate governance and control arrangements were fit for purpose.  
£91,000 UK Car Group Limited 03/05/12 For the failings of its appointed representative in respect of the monitoring of payment protection insurance (PPI) sales.  
£26,600 Christchurch Investment Management Limited 01/05/12 For failings in relation to the protection of client money.  
£11,550 David Thornberry 01/05/12 For failings in relation to the protection of client money.  
£292,950 Exillon Energy plc 26/04/12 For breaches of Listing Rules.  

£400,000

James Joseph Corr

28/03/12

For publishing misleading information to investors about the credit quality of Welcome’s loan book.

 

£200,000

Peter Douglas Miller

28/03/12

For publishing misleading information to investors about the credit quality of Welcome’s loan book.

 
£95,200 Gareth Flanagan 27/03/12 For knowingly submitting mortgage applications through GMF in his own name which contained false information.  
£8,750,000 Coutts & Company 26/03/12 For failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls relating to high risk customers, including Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).  
£210,000 Nicholas James Kyprios 13/03/12 For improper market conduct in disclosing client confidential information ahead of a significant bond issue in November 2009.  
£109,000 George McGregor 08/03/12 For entering into contracts on behalf of RLA without authorisation and which benefitted a former RLA employee.  
£1,500,000 Santander UK plc 16/02/12 For failing to clarify FSCS cover on structured products.  
£3,638,000 David Einhorn 15/02/12 For engaging in market abuse.  
£3,650,795 Greenlight Capital Inc 15/02/12 For engaging in market abuse.  
£350,000 Andrew Osborne 15/02/12 For disclosing inside information.  
£97,600 Topps Rogers 13/02/12 For failing to take reasonable care to ensure its recommendations to UCIS were suitable for customers.  
£2,867,000 Ravi Sinha 31/01/12 For fraudulently obtaining £1.367 million for himself from a company owned by a private equity fund advised by JC Flowers by means of a fictitious invoicing scheme.  
£130,000 Alexander Edward Ten-Holter 27/01/12 For failings as CF10 holder responsible for Compliance oversight.  
£14,000 Mark Joseph Laurenti 27/01/12 Failed to put in place appropriate systems and controls.  
£65,000 Caspar Jonathan William Agnew 27/01/12 For failure to recognise suspicious transactions, and subsequent failure to alert the Compliance department.  
£2,170,000 UK Insurance Limited 17/1/12 For failings of Direct Line Insurance Plc and Churchill Insurance Limited.