■ march 20, 2017. Danske Bank and Nordea are involved in an international penningtvätthärva after the Danish newspaper Berlingskes disclosure. The money should have been transmitted into the EU from Russia. Behind the suspicious sums are, among other things, Vladimir Putin’s family, the Russian intelligence service and the dictatorship in Azerbaijan.
■ 19 September 2018. Danske Bank presents an external inquiry into the penningtvätthärvan. It shows that the bank’s Estonian branch 2007-2015 suspected to have washed over 2.300 billion.
the Money is suspected to also have been transmitted via other international banks. Brottsutrednignarna is going on in Denmark, Estonia and the united states. Bedömar mean that the us investigation is likely to result in both sanctions and mångmiljardböter.
the Bank acknowledges that it has had inadequate control, but denies the crime.
Danske Bank ceo Thomas Borgen and chairman Ole Andersen has resigned after the skein.
■ the Fall of 2018. In connection with the uncovering of the Denmark claims the Swedish banks that they have not had the same type of foreign customers who are suspected of money laundering by Danske Bank.
Swedbank is ”completely different”, according to the ceo Birgitte Bonnesen. On several occasions, she has ensured that there are no corpses in the baltic the closet, and that the bank focus on domestic companies and domestic individuals.
■ February 19, 2019. Danske Bank announces that it is closing all their branches in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.
■ February 20, 2019. SVT’s Mission review reports of suspected money laundering in the Swedish major banks have. The disclosure 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 Danske Bank and Swedbank. Over 1,000 Swedbank customers who are known from Danske Bank scandal have been identified.
According to the SVT has all the 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.
at Least sek 150 million has been sent from Danske Bank, Swedbank, from the nine named companies with links to the so-called Magnitskijaffären.
At the Stockholm stock exchange’s closing had the Swedbank share has lost 13.6 per cent.
Birgitte Bonnesen has confirmed that the bank discovered suspicious money laundering and reported this to the fraud squad. But Swedbank does not want to disclose the amounts involved. It also says that they monitor all transactions to detect activities related to the crime, and that you always act when such signals is noticeable.
■ February 21, 2019. Swedbank announces that it has decided to allow the public accounting firm EY carry out an external investigation with focus on those 50 customers are present in the SVT’s disclosure. The investigation result shall be presented to Swedbank’s board of directors prior to the bank’s annual general meeting on 28 march.
After that, the Business world reports that EY themselves are being investigated for involvement in the Danske Bank-tangle, Swedbank has instead engaged Forensic Risk Alliance in order to make the investigation.
Even the Swedish and the Estonian financial supervision authority shall jointly examine the data on suspected money laundering in Swedbank.
■ February 22, 2019. Svenska Dagbladet writes that officials at the Fsa are already in the fall, wanted to start a review of Swedbank’s baltic operations. But according to the newspaper, the authority’s regulatory committee have voted down the proposal at a meeting.
■ February 26, 2019. DN reveals that a number of the Swedbank’s largest shareholders were informed about the SVT’s publication several days before all other depositors the rest of the market. The bank’s actions met with criticism from experts who say that it can act on the violation of both stock exchange rules and the EU regulation on market abuse.
During the day, reports Dagens industri that the bank’s former head of enforcement of the rules already in 2016 warned for deficiencies in the bank’s preventive work to combat money laundering in the baltic operations.
According to sources of the newspaper presented the head in the spring of 2016 an internal report for the board which highlighted the weaknesses in, inter alia, customer due diligence and transaction monitoring. A couple of weeks later, got the boss fired by Birgitte Bonnesen. Di:s sources state that the criticism angered the Bonnesen, who was the head of Swedbank’s baltic operations 2011 to 2014.
the bank’s head of communications, Gabriel Francke Rodau belie the data.
■ February 27, 2019. Mission review indicated in its latest disclosure that the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych received a suspicious mångmiljonmuta who went via a Swedbank account.
Even the brottsanklagad Russian oligarch Iskander Machmudov, as well as other Russian mångmiljardärer is president Vladimir Putin near, took the in turn, the billions year after year by the Swedish major banks have.
During the day came the information that the serious fraud office launches criminal investigation against Swedbank. The suspicion is based primarily on information obtained in the DN’s disclosure of major shareholder of the bank received information about the suspicious penningtvättskandalen.