>>3971825 (PB)
What's missing from the article is how much profit the bank actually made from its circumvention of the US sanctions. Sloppy journalism.
$1.3 billion + $95 million might sound like a lot, but it could also be insignificant and worth paying the fine if the net profit was many billions of dollars, and it probably was. Sorry, but this is not how you squeeze globalist bankers. They ALWAYS pass on the cost of doing business to their clients. $1.3 billion dollars means nothing to these people.