From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572 : « By law, they have to know who their clients are - it's not enough to fil

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572 : « By law, they have to know who their clients are - it's not enough to file SARs and keep taking dirty money from clients while expecting enforcers to deal with the problem. If they have evidence of criminal activity, they should stop moving the cash. » If that's true, I don't think the banks are simply behaving in the way anyone reading the legislation would expect them to behave.