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🔥In what @billbrowder calls the "largest #MoneyLaundering scandal in European history," Danske Bank CEO Thomas Borgen RESIGNS after a probe uncovered $234 BILLION of suspicious transactions at its tiny #Estonian branch👉🏼“BILLIONS of rubles monthly." 1/
reuters.com/article/us-dan…
reuters.com/article/us-dan…
Way back in 2007, Danske Bank was criticized by the Estonian regulator and received info from Danish regulators pointing out: “criminal activity in its pure form, including #MoneyLaundering."🤨
#DanskeBank FAILED to do anything to stop it. Why not? Likely, b/c they PROFITED.🤬2/
#DanskeBank FAILED to do anything to stop it. Why not? Likely, b/c they PROFITED.🤬2/
In 2014 (7 years later!), a whistleblower at the Estonian branch said that #DanskeBank did NOT properly investigate the #MoneyLaundering allegations, which were not shared with its board.
Danske said that measures to get its business under control had been "insufficient."🙄 3/
Danske said that measures to get its business under control had been "insufficient."🙄 3/
THREAD: in 2013, Denmark’s biggest bank – Danske – previously accused of #MoneyLaundering, shut down 20 #Russian🇷🇺accounts used to funnel cash through British companies by *members of Putin’s FAMILY & the FSB*‼️ 1/
theguardian.com/world/2018/feb…
theguardian.com/world/2018/feb…
In 2013, a whistleblower alleged that Danske's Estonian branch was engaged in "suspicious & possibly illegal activity" involving the LAUNDERING of money for Putin, his family & the FSB, but the whistleblower's report remained secret until being leaked now‼️ 2/
Last September, Danske's SAME Estonian branch was busted for laundering $2.9 billion of mostly Azerbaijani money, channeled through opaque British companies.🤨 3/
