The German storbank Deutsche Bank communicated with both Danske Bank’s Estonian branch and hovedkvartet in Copenhagen, before 2015, cut off the cooperation with Danske Bank.
It tells Deutsche Bank antisvindelchef, Stephan Wilken, at a hearing on Monday evening in the European Parliament, which among other things deals with the bank’s role in Danske Bank’s case of money laundering.
– We had contact with Danske Bank in Estonia and in Copenhagen, he says.
He does not want to go into the details of what communications went out. He refers to the fact that the bank is started with an internal investigation of the matter and, therefore, will not elaborate.
Already in 2013 stopped by the american bank JPMorgan its cooperation with Danske Bank, it was suspected of money laundering.
however, It was another two years before the Deutsche Bank broke the cooperation with the Danish bank.
Stephan Wilken tells, that the companies have their ‘own risk assessment’.
– As part of our fraud prevention we monitor transactions, and at a time we were more and more worried about a series of transactions, he says.
in Addition, telling Stephan Wilken, Deutsche Bank has tripled the investment in its antisvindelafdeling since the scandal began to roll.
Danske Bank is currently being investigated by the authorities in Denmark, the Uk, France and the UNITED states.
In the bank’s own study, which was presented in september, informed the bank that the total flow of money from customers abroad through the Estonian branch in the period 2007-2015 amounted to 200 billion euros.
This corresponds to almost 1500 billion dollars.
the Investigation has not been able to establish how big a part of the amount that is “suspicious”. But it is probably a very big part’ of the 1500 billion dollars.
a Member of the EUROPEAN Parliament, Jeppe Kofod (S) of regret of not getting something more concrete out of the consultation.
– The only thing that was interesting was that the Deutsche Bank said clearly and distinctly, that they had dialogue both with the Danish Bank in Copenhagen and the Estonian branch, until they stopped the cooperation in 2015, says Jeppe Kofod, after the hearing.
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