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by gadders 1194 days ago
>>There are also rules that explicitly stop us from giving information about why we’ve closed an account, to protect ongoing law enforcement investigations. (This is known as ‘tipping off’.)

I thought closing the account would actually be tipping off? i.e. if Mr Money Launderer suddenly sees an account of his closed with no reason given, would he not think he was being investigated?