Finance

Former TD Bank Branch Worker Charged in Ongoing Money Laundering Case

  • Employee allegedly issued debit cards for shell companies
  • Scheme involved laundering millions from US to Colombia

Documents filed by the Justice Department outlined three separate money-laundering conspiracies perpetrated through Toronto-Dominion bank branches.

Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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The US Department of Justice has arrested and charged another former Toronto-Dominion Bank employee with conspiracy to launder money, the latest in a string of charges tied to the lender’s massive compliance failures at its American retail business.

Leonardo Ayala, 24, who worked at a Toronto-Dominion branch in Doral, Florida, from February to November 2023, made a first appearance in a Miami court on Tuesday, the Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday.