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Opinion: Banks should be held accountable when fraud takes place on their watch

Allen Stanford attends bail hearing In Houston.
Allen Stanford attends a bail hearing in the wake of the infamous Ponzi case. Photo: Dave Einsel/Getty Images

Cases continue to show why fraud victims must have the right to sue banks to recover their losses.

As asset recovery lawyers, we are tasked with recouping monies lost to fraud. One of the issues we constantly face is the shifting camouflaging of assets. These move not only between bank accounts, but across national frontiers. Fraudsters know this movement (and the “layering” of stolen assets) adds to the