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LATEST: A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7m for Epstein days before his arrest

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Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS IMAGE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY, AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY.

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BREAKING: Swedbank hit with new AML probe from Sweden’s FSA watchdog

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NEWS: Morgan Stanley opened accounts for Epstein trusts as late as 2019

LATEST: Bank of Ireland UK fined £3.78m for missing anti-fraud deadline

By Naomi Rovnick, Brad Heath and Nivedita Balu

CHARLES Schwab wired about $27.7 million on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein to a realtor in Morocco as the disgraced financier tried to purchase a palace in the 10 days before his 2019 arrest, including one transfer from an account which lacked sufficient funds, files released by the U.S. Department of Justice show.

Details of the transactions, reported by Reuters for the first time, show how the U.S. brokerage handled funds for Epstein over the course of several months at a time when he was under intense public scrutiny after reports in the Miami Herald in 2018.

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