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Money laundering lands Deutsche Banks in trouble

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November 30, 2018
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Money laundering lands Deutsche Banks in trouble

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Police have raided six Deutsche Bank offices in and around Frankfurt over money laundering allegations linked to the “Panama Papers”.

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The public prosecutor’s office said: “Investigators are looking into the activities of two unnamed Deutsche Bank employees alleged to have helped clients set up offshore firms to launder money.

“It focuses on the years 2013 through to 2018,’’ a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said.

About 170 police officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors searched the offices where written and electronic business documents were seized.

“Of course, we will cooperate closely with the public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt, as it is in our interest as well to clarify the facts,” Deutsche Bank said.

The bank added that it believed it had already provided all the relevant information related to the “Panama Papers”.

The news came as Deutsche Bank tried to repair its tattered reputation after three years of losses and a drumbeat of financial and regulatory scandals.

Christian Sewing was appointed as chief executive in April to help the bank to rebuild, while he trimmed U.S. operations and reshuffled the management board but revenue has continued to slip.

Deutsche Bank shares were down over 2 per cent by 1409 GMT and have lost almost half their value this year.

“The investigation was triggered after investigators reviewed so-called `Offshore-Leaks’ and `Panama Papers,’’ the prosecutor said.

The “Panama Papers”, which consist of millions of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, were leaked to the media in April 2016.

The prosecutors said they are looking at whether Deutsche Bank may have assisted clients to set up offshore companies in tax havens so that funds transferred to accounts at Deutsche Bank could skirt anti-money laundering safeguards.

“In 2016 alone, over 900 customers were served by a Deutsche Bank subsidiary registered on the British Virgin Islands, generating a volume of 311 million Euros,’’ the prosecutors said.

They also said Deutsche Bank employees are alleged to have breached their duties by neglecting to report money laundering suspicions about clients and offshore companies involved in tax evasion schemes.

Prosecutors began the investigation in August.

It is separate from another money laundering scandal surrounding Danske Bank, where Deutsche Bank is involved.

Danske is under investigation for suspicious payments totaling 200 billion Euros from 2007 onwards and a source with direct knowledge of the case has told Reuters Deutsche Bank helped to process the bulk of the payments.

A Deutsche Bank executive director has said the lender played only a secondary role as a so-called correspondent bank to Danske Bank, limiting what it needed to know about the people behind the transactions.

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