the Report, which was laid out at 07.00 o’clock on Friday is masked, so that many details are not visible in the. It seems to be a review of the status of the accounts and data that SVT left to the bank in connection with the program Mission review.
It confirms that the accounts have existed, but all the data on how many it is about who is the proprietor, is crossed out in the report.
What Swedbank or the investigators draw too conclusions from the data is not clear, but according to the bank will now proceed with an in-depth review.
In the initial trade on the stock market punished the swedbank share, which quickly dropped 0.5-1%. It was then in the forward lunch.
a statement on the president’s position.
After perusing the status report from the FRA confirms Swedbank’s board of directors its continuing confidence of the president and her ability to lead and drive the bank’s work to combat money laundering. Swedbank takes up its efforts to combat money laundering very seriously and focuses on continuously improving its ability to stop financial crime. The board is committed to ensuring that the management of the bank has all the necessary resources to continue this important work. Therefore, the board has decided to conduct a deeper analysis in cooperation with the relevant authorities, ” says Lars Idermark, chairman of the board, Swedbank, in a press release.
to create a specialized unit within the Swedbank, in order to combat financial crime, which will be called the Financial Crime Intelligence.
– the Work to combat financial crime are ongoing, she writes in a comment.
According to an earlier report that the SVT come over, Swedbank has in one’s own internal review found that there was money laundering, despite the fact that the ceo Birgitte Bonnesen denied this.
– Now we have gone through everything and we have completed this walkthrough, because there is nothing”, said Birgitte Bonnesen to Today’s Industry in October 2018.
, the report confirms the programme’s previous disclosure of suspected money laundering.
”A large number of the suspects are customers of Swedbank and Danske bank have slussat 3.2 billion and 6.7 billion us dollars between banks”, type SVT in his article.
the Report is marked ”confidential” and shall be authored by ”Swedbank Compliance”. On the list of recipients is Birgitte Bonnesen, and several other members of group management.
The internal report stated to show that the bank was linked to what has come to be known as ”The Russian Laundromat”, a set-up to move hundreds of billions of dollars out of Russia.
2019 as SVT’s uppdrag granskning reported about suspected money laundering in the Swedish major banks have.
the Revelation shows how 50 customers have completed a number of transfers between 2007 and 2015 – a total to the sums exceeding sek 40 billion – in Swedbank’s branches in the Baltic countries.
the Documents show that there are data on the amounts of the transactions in the Baltic region, 2007-2015 between the skandaltyngda Danske Bank and Swedbank. Over 1,000 Swedbank customers who are known from Danske Bank scandal have been identified.
customers have shown clear warning signs for suspicion of money laundering. Some of the customers have lacked visible activity and many others are represented by so-called goalkeepers.
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