“This settlement is nothing short of a victory for Prevezon,” Faith Gay, a lawyer for the company, said in a phone interview. “It’s almost an apology by the government.”
The last-minute deal comes against a backdrop of diplomatic tensions and enormous interest in the illicit movement of Russian money. FBI Director James Comey was fired last week in the midst of a probe of Russia’s influence over the U.S. presidential elections and U.S. prosecutors are also looking into how wealthy Russians may have moved as much as $10 billion out of the country earlier this decade through Deutsche Bank AG, which has since conceded massive compliance lapses.