After the SVT’s Mission review revealing that the money laundering in the mångmiljardklassen suspected to have occurred systematically in the bank’s operations in the Baltic region so störtsjönk the bank’s share. The shareholders have in total lost around 45 billion. At the forthcoming annual general meeting on 28 march, the bank’s major shareholder to determine if the ceo Birgitte Bonnesen, and the bank’s board shall be granted discharge in respect of the 2018. It now opens the largest of them to do.
– What we know, there has been something about the activities of the bank relating to the 2018 which makes us hesitate before the meeting to vote for the discharge of this year’s meeting, “says Lennart Haglund, president of the savings banks home owners’ association Sparbanksgruppen to SvD.
they cannot be held personally liable for losses that the company has suffered, even if the loss is directly linked to their behaviour during the year. Such protection, however, only the information that was known when the decision was made.
The suspected money laundering within the bank’s business shall have occurred between 2007 and 2015. Therefore, concerns a discharge decision, not the potential money laundering, but may, however, exclude the ceo Birgitte Bonnesen, and the board of directors from liability for decision taken, or notice given during 2018.
Birgitte Bonnesen has several times explicitly said that there has been money laundering within the bank’s baltic operations. It may now have consequences.
” it Would appear that there have been shortcomings in the business but that you have chosen to not act, to fix them or communicate them, it is also a possible reason for not granting discharge. Another possible reason is if the management should be aware of abuses but failed to do so, ” says Joacim Olsson to SvD.
by the shareholders voting for such a proposal at the annual general meeting. But such a decision can be prevented if a minority shareholders in the event that amounts to at least ten percent of the total holding to vote against it.
Several other major shareholder says to SvD that they are reluctant to grant the ceo and the board of directors discharge from liability.
On Wednesday night, reported the Dagens Industri that the bank prohibit their employees from using Mission control anonymous it operates.
Dagens Industri, referring to anonymous sources, writes that the bank blocked access to the website, for all those who use the bank’s intranet.
It is confirmed by Swedbank’s head of corporate communications, who say, however, that the site is blocked in order to protect banking secrecy.
” Yes, it is true that the page is blocked, just like very many other pages. The major reason why we’ve blocked the majority of the pages for internal use is to protect the banking secrecy, ” he says to Dagens Industri.
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