WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. banking regulator

announced on Tuesday it had fined three former executives at

Wells Fargo ( WFC ) for their roles in the bank's long-running

fake accounts scandal.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Claudia

Russ Anderson, the bank's former community bank group risk

officer, would be fined $10 million and prohibited from working

in the banking industry. David Julian, the bank's former chief

auditor and Paul McLinko, its former executive audit director,

were fined $7 million and $1.5 million, respectively.