U.S. Judge sanctions RBC for breaching order to provide documents for fraud investigation

Royal Bank of Canada has suffered the ignominy of having sanctions awarded against it by a U. S. judge who ruled the bank had “improperly withheld” documents from the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a lawsuit regarding an alleged “massive” fraud involving RBC’s operations in several jurisdictions, including the Bahamas and Cayman Islands.