An Israeli woman is suing French bank BNP Paribas over what she says is its support for global terror financing as well as "fraud and deception to a host of other criminal allegations against the firm as well as anti-Semitic behavior.”
According to a press release issued on behalf of plaintiff Ruth Agam, the suit "accuses BNP of forging and manipulating documents as well as fabricating purportedly 'signed' documents that Ms. Agam states she never saw or signed” as well as "alleges serious anti-Semitic behaviour by the bank and its employees.”
The suit also asserted "a series of examples relating to BNP's worldwide misconduct against the Jewish people in general, and the State of Israel.”
"My client's lawsuit is against an organisation that demonstrates a broader pattern of BNP's global unlawfulness and its ongoing litany of poor choices, each one of which finds BNP siding with and supporting terrorist movements and hate groups around the world,” said Agam’s attorney Adam Levitt.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter together with MKs Aliza Lavie, Yehudah Glick and terror victims organization Almagor have requested that the attorney general begin investigating the bank for terrorism financing.
According to Reuters, the bank was fined nearly nine billion dollars by a US court in 2015 as part of a settlement stemming from allegations that it had flouted sanctions on Sudan, Cuba and Iran.
