In March 2015, Commerzbank entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with this Office and other components of the Department of Justice, including the Department's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, based in part on this Office's charges that Commerzbank violated the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") by willfully failing to have an effective anti-money laundering program, willfully failing to conduct due diligence on its foreign correspondent accounts, and willfully failing to file suspicious activity reports, which allowed the perpetrators of a major accounting fraud involving the Olympus Corporation to transfer more than $1.6 billion through Commerzbank in furtherance of the fraud. Pursuant to the deferred prosecution agreement, Commerzbank, among other things, agreed to the forfeiture of $300 million to the United States based on the BSA charges, which was completed in 2015.