The boss of BNP Paribas has written to staff warning that the French banking giant will be fined heavily by US authorities.
"I want to be clear, we will be punished severely," Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said in the internal memo.
The bank could be fined $8.9bn (£5.2bn) for allegedly violating sanctions
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