There are a slentriankritik directed at the banks and that can be quite tiring. Either they earn too much money, and then they kapitalistmonster as the shoes themselves on the common people. Or they earn too little – then that is the exploiters who are forced to come crawling to the taxpayer.

fills an important function in the economy. If there had not been, we had been forced to invent it. Well-maintained banks is a necessity, not a necessary evil.

It is possible to understand that banks and other businesses that operate in dirty markets to some extent will contaminate the hands. That they are complying with the law is a minimum requirement, but moral boundaries are rarely as cut-throat as they are legal.

Examples of how banks are abusing both the trust legislation, however, is for many. The tragedy Swedbank, which now takes place in front of the open curtain and during the ongoing annual general meeting on Thursday is a clear and shameful example.

, among many candidates, in Swedbankhärvan discovered by SVT is the point of contact with the so-called Magnitskijaffären.

Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer who for more than ten years ago went into battle against corruption in Putin’s Russia. For he paid the most expensive price, he was arrested, tortured, and finally died in the Russian flu ”sudden häktesdöd” after a year behind bars. The crimes he investigated were scams to billions and the tracks crept close to Vladimir Putin.

Magnitsky’s fate is not unique, on the contrary, typical of the brutal corruption, resting on violence, that characterises the Putin’s Russia. Several countries, however, not yet in Sweden, have passed so-called Magnitskijlagar to freeze the assets of people who commit crimes against human rights.

Pengahanteringen may in the short term show a plus, but the loss of förtroendekontot is the greater.

Now suspected therefore Swedbank for having helped to wash the blood money from the skein. Already in 2013 the bank shall have been informed of the suspicions, but still in the autumn, there were customers remain with a link to the Magnitskijskandalen, according to SVT. It is hard to think of many more serious accusations against a bank than to the been helpful with pure Swedish water and detergent when Putin’s criminal henchmen come with their baskets full of dirty money.

if the grossly fraudulent activity. The bank’s management may have misled the surroundings by denying knowledge of the most obscure shops despite the fact that it had been informed about them in their internal reports.

Some suspicions are simply more serious than others. There are just such now circles around Swedbank. It also applies if one is accused of having fueled a civil war with child soldiers, as in the case of Lundin Petroleum, which has sue on Friday.

so sharp location requires the greatest humility and transparency from the senior management. They have both failed completely to deliver. Pengahanteringen may in the short term show a plus, but the loss of förtroendekontot is the greater.

that the trust capital for Swedbank a day can be restored. But hardly the leadership that had to deal with pengatvättshärvan. To Swedbank’s ceo Birgitte Bonnesen for the annual general meeting was allowed to leave his post is, therefore, logical.