More requests focus on Danske

Deutsche Bank has said it had received requests for information from regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world that are investigating a money laundering scheme involving Danske Bank.

More requests focus on Danske

Deutsche Bank has said it had received requests for information from regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world that are investigating a money laundering scheme involving Danske Bank.

The statement came in response to a Bloomberg report that said the US Federal Reserve was investigating Deutsche Bank’s role in the Danske scandal.

Deutsche Bank said, in a statement, that there were no probes. “But we received several requests for information from regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world.”

The bank also said it continued to provide information to, and cooperate with, the investigating agencies. “It is not surprising at all that the investigating authorities, and banks themselves, have an interest in the Danske case and the lessons to be learned from it,” Deutsche Bank said.

The Fed’s probe is at an early stage, Bloomberg said. The US central bank is investigating whether Deutsche Bank, in New York, properly monitored the transfer of funds it performed on behalf of Danske from its Estonia branch, the report added.

Deutsche chief executive, Christian Sewing, said, last week, that the bank was investigating the Danske case internally and that it had no indications of any misconduct on the bank’s part.

Danske is under investigation for suspicious payments totalling €200bn, from 2007 until 2015. Deutsche Bank has said that it acted as a correspondent bank for Danske Bank in Estonia. A Deutsche Bank executive director has said the German bank played only a secondary role as a correspondent bank to Danske Bank, limiting what it needed to know about the people behind the transactions.

In 2017, the Fed was among regulators that fined Deutsche Bank nearly $700m (€616m) for weak controls that allowed money laundering from Russia. In November, police searched the offices of all the members of Deutsche Bank’s board, as part of a two-day raid and investigation into money laundering allegations linked to the Panama Papers.

Deutsche has said that it had no indications of misconduct in this case.

- Reuters

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