As HSBC’s money laundering scandal rages, it has been revealed that the global banking giant used some of its India staff, along with others from the US, as “offshore reviewers” whose work was found to be “deficient”. A review by the US’s Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) found “deficiencies in the quality of the work” of the reviewers, requiring an independent assessment which found that 34 per cent of the supposedly resolved anti-money laundering (AML) alerts had to be redone.