This month, activists from Rock Around the Blockade, Revolutionary Communist Group and the 1 Cent For Cuba (1c4Cuba) campaign joined the international caravan against the US blockade of Cuba. This time around, the caravan focussed on Lloyds bank, who earlier this month closed, without warning or explanation, a bank account owned by the 1c4Cuba campaign. The bank account was set up in July 2022 and was used to receive international transactions as part of the 1c4Cuba campaign. Such transactions, using the reference ‘CUBA’, were received from participants in Ireland, Spain and Canada. These were intended to trigger internal systems within the banks to block these transactions, thus proving that they comply with the US blockade of Cuba in an extraterritorial way.
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The bank account was set up in July 2022 and was used to receive international transactions as part of the 1c4Cuba campaign (www.1c4cuba.eu). Such transactions, using the reference ‘CUBA’, were received from participants in Ireland, Spain and Canada. On 14 October, Lloyds bank sent letters to the account holder informing them, without explanation, that the account would be closed 'with immediate effect'. The UK's Financial Ombudsman Service guidance states that it would expect a bank to provide at least 30 days' notice before closing a customer's account, unless there are 'exceptional circumstances' such as where fraud is suspected.
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