The Financial Post reports in its Friday edition that a former New York employee of TD Bank has pleaded guilty to supporting a money-laundering network's movement of hundreds of millions of dollars through the bank. The Post's Naimul Karim writes that Wilfredo Aquino processed 1,680 cheques totalling more than $92-million for the money-laundering network, the Department of Justice said in a statement (all figures U.S.). Nearly all of these bank cheques were worth more than $10,000 each, which triggered TD Bank's legal requirement to file a currency transaction report.
Led by an individual named Da Ying Sze, also known as David, the network used various other TD branches to launder money, but it laundered the most money through Mr. Aquino's Midtown Manhattan branch.
"Nobody processed more transactions for David's network at the Midtown Manhattan store than Aquino," the DOJ said.
In February, 2022, Mr. Sze pleaded guilty to co-ordinating a $653-million money-laundering conspiracy, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and bribing bank employees in connection with financial transactions, the DOJ said.
TD settled criminal charges in 2025 for allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be laundered.
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