On Friday, April 14, 2023, the Paris court validated an agreement under which the Spanish bank Abanca Corporacion Bancaria agreed to pay a fine of 3.8 million euros to avoid prosecution in France for money laundering, including tax evasion.

Stéphane Noël, president of the court from Paris has validated a judicial agreement of public interest (Cjip), concluded between Abanca and the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office on 23 March. In addition to the public interest fine of 3.8 million euros, this agreement provides for the payment of 500,000 euros in damages to the French State by the bank. In fact, the Spanish bank had been indicted for money laundering committed between 2011 and 2013 and routinely, according to prosecutor Céline Ducournau. Investigations revealed checks worth more than 8 million euros, and that customers unrelated to Spain had cashed some of these checks