Extradited Austrian Banker Pleads Not Guilty to US Charges (2)

An Austrian banker pleaded not guilty to US charges that he conspired to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through the American financial system.

Peter Weinzierl, former chief executive officer of Anglo Austrian AAB Bank AG, entered his plea through his lawyer in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday after being extradited from the UK. He had fought being sent to the US for four years.

Weinzierl was indicted in 2020 for allegedly conspiring with Odebrecht SA — Latin America’s biggest construction company, now named Novonor — in a decade-long scheme to pay bribes to win business around the ...