the chief Prosecutor, Thomas Langrot on Ekobrottsmyndighetens finanskammare has on Wednesday decided to initiate an investigation, Swedbank, writes the agency in a press release.
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, according to the serious fraud office.
Thomas Langrot, chief prosecutor at the Ekobrottsmyndighetens finanskammare. Photo: Marc Femenia
two days before the scandal came to light as the bank’s 15 largest shareholders were informed about what was coming.
” I have, on its own initiative launched an investigation when there is reason to believe that unauthorised disclosure of the inside information was made to the 15 largest shareholders in Swedbank before the element in the SVT. The continued investigation may show the information made available, ” says Thomas Langrot in the press release.
Swedbank feel to the investigation but would not comment on it further.
” We have taken note of the news from the EBM (serious fraud office)), but in general, we have nothing more to say than what we said in the past. Namely that we have made a different assessment than the Today’s News presents, ” says Swedbank’s head of communications, Gabriel Francke Rodau to DN.
” I will not review what the experts said in Today’s News. What we have to say is what we said before and it stands firm, says Gabriel Francke Rodau.
He’s referring to what’s been said in an interview with DN on Tuesday. Where does the Swedbank claimed that they could not determine what the Mission of the audit report would be on the basis of the data bank received by SVT.
the DN has after this been part of the e-mail that the Mission of the examination sent to the bank’s press office in the initial contact.
Axel Gordh Humlesjö on the review and punktar up what conclusions they come to. Among other things, mentioned that the bank, like Danske Bank, has a large so-called ”non-resident portfolio”. Thus, customers who are not resident in the country where your bank account is.
Furthermore, he explains, they also identified a large number of account holders that lack clear business, and to their counterparties in the transactions, often written at the addresses appearing in the reports on corruption and money laundering.
Several of the conclusions listed påminnner about the revelations that have appeared in the Danske Bank-tangle. Among the last paragraphs in the e-mail also mentioned that the Mission review is the disconnect Swedbank to the so-called Magnitsky affair – a large and renowned skattekupp in Russia, which proved to have links to several earlier cases of money laundering.
this email may Swedbank’s press office sent to him on the afternoon of 13 February. A week before the Mission’s audit reports published, and five days before the largest shareholders receive advance information about the story.
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