“The united states-the authority is looking at SEB-transactions”
“SEB, like Swedbank state of New York treasury office NYDFS in the beat.”
“the Authority has also called for more information about the business with the law firm Mossack Fonseca, reports news agency Bloomberg.”
“the law Firm Mossack Fonseca is notorious for helping clients with skatteupplägg with the help of the accounts in the tax havens.”
“The SEB fades down the drama.”
“Bloomberg is referring in his article to a source with the transparency and reporting that also Nordea examined in the same cases. But neither the authority or any of the banks would comment on the case.”
“It has already been previously reported that Swedbank had questions of the NYDFS in the same cases.”
“the News about SEB and Nordea will then Swedbank’s former ceo Birgitte Bonnesen, on Thursday was fired an hour before the annual general meeting. This was a consequence of the financial crime directed suspicion against the bank on insider dealing and serious fraud.”
“at Ease with the processes.”
“SEB, Swedbank, one of the largest banks in the Baltic countries, with total lending in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a little over sek 150 billion.”
“TT: How do you see the risk that the bank accounts have been used for money laundering in the Baltic states?”
“– We feel at ease with the processes and procedures we have in place, both to detect and monitor the transactions, ” says Frank Hojem.”
“According to presschefen SEB has several times gone through the baltic operations and other activities to check that the work against money laundering works.”
“– We see no signs that we would systematically have missed this type of volumes or that we have been systematically exploited, ” he says.”
“can’t guarantee”
“– But we will do our utmost to monitor, detect and report, ” said chairman Marcus Wallenberg, in his opening statement.”
“According to Wallenberg, the bank has reinforced its resources for the work against money laundering.”
” When I look ahead, I also see no reason for SEB to make even more. New technologies will be crucial to improve our society’s ability to detect and monitor.”
“Even the Nordea accounts being used for money laundering, according to financier Bill Browder, who have notified Swedbank to the serious fraud office for alleged money laundering linked to the so-called Magnitsky-tangle.”
“SEB just did in the last year, a profit of 2.6 billion kronor in the Baltics and the bank has, in the past five years, made a total profit in the former soviet republics of nearly ten billion.”