The Director of Public Prosecutions, Christopher Pryde, has approved charges against ANZ Banking Group Limited under the Financial Transactions Reporting Act 2004.
The DPP says ANZ is charged with two counts of failure to verify customer identities contrary to sections of the act.
It is alleged that ANZ failed to verify and properly identify two customers of the bank and established two bank accounts without proper verification of the customer’s identities.
The matter will be called on the 7th of July at the Suva Magistrates Court.
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