Thursday, May 21, 2015

Moscow branch of Deutsche Bank is suspected of laundering hundreds of millions of euros – BFM.Ru

According to media reports, several employees of the bank sent to the forced leave until the investigation is completed

Deutsche Bank informed the Federal Office for Financial Sector Supervision (Bafin) on possible money laundering in its Moscow branch. This is with reference to informed sources told the Internet portal of the German magazine Manager Magazin.

The publication writes that it could be “at least hundreds of millions of euros,” laundered by means of questionable transactions in the derivatives market. Source magazine the bank noted that “if Deutsche Bank, as usual, check the source of financial income, then this kind of operation would have never taken place.” Now the circumstances of the incident are studying specially invited from London and New York, investigators and experts. They are working in the central office of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt.

Bafin told the publication that informed about the incident, but declined to comment on the situation. According to Manager Magazin, the Moscow branch of Deutsche Bank before the end of an internal investigation sent several of its employees to a forced vacation.

Deutsche Bank – a universal, one of 29 major multinational banks according to the Financial Stability Board. It includes commercial, mortgage, investment banks, leasing companies. The bank has 13 million customers, more than 1,500 branches in Germany, numerous branches, representative offices abroad (76 countries, including Moscow). It is the largest participant in the foreign exchange market.

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