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Explaining Danske Bank’S €200 Billion Coin Laundering Scandal

Two questions come upwards to hear later on reading these stories from Reuters.
1) Who were the politicians involved? There had to live on politicians involved, you lot don't larn this large without politicians.
2) Why is Bill Browder showing upwards inwards as well as hence many of the stories of the goings-on inwards Republic of Estonia as well as now, Deutschland amongst the Deutsche Bank connection?*
First up, Reuters via Insurance Journal, Nov 19:

Danske Bank has been caught upwards inwards i of the largest-ever coin laundering scandals. Howard Wilkinson, the whistleblower who kickoff alerted Denmark’s biggest banking concern to the problem, testified earlier the Danish parliament on Monday.
HOW BIG H5N1 SCANDAL IS THIS? Some 200 billion euros ($227 billion) inwards payments flowed through the non-resident portfolio of Danske Bank’s tiny Estonian branch betwixt 2007 as well as 2015. The banking concern eventually commissioned a study which concluded inwards September that many of these payments were suspicious.

 WHERE WAS THIS MONEY FROM?
Most of the payments came from Estonia, Russia, Republic of Latvia as well as Republic of Cyprus as well as Britain, the study said. Shell companies were used to disguise the identities of those involved, erstwhile chairman Ole Andersen has told Reuters.

AND WHERE WAS information technology GOING? Payments went to Estonia, Latvia, China, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain as well as to a greater extent than than 150 other countries, the study said.

WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE? Howard Wilkinson, the caput of the bank’s trading unit of measurement inwards the Baltics from 2007 to 2014, was the whistleblower who had warned the executive board inwards Copenhagen inwards 2013 as well as 2014 nearly suspicious activities at the Estonian branch, Danish paper Berlingske reported inwards September.

WHY DIDN’T AUTHORITIES ACT SOONER? Denmark’s fiscal watchdog faces an enquiry past times the European Union’s banking supervisor, as well as the Danish concern government minister has criticized the regulator for non beingness critical plenty towards the banking concern as well as for trusting it equally good much.

HAS ANYONE BEEN FOUND RESPONSIBLE?
Not yet. The instance is nether criminal investigation inwards Denmark, Republic of Estonia as well as the United States. The Danish nation prosecutor’s investigation includes whether pinnacle administration tin live on held personally liable. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it is investigating the role of UK-registered companies....
...TIMELINE-How Danske Bank's Estonian coin laundering scandal unfolded":
...July-August: Estonian as well as Danish prosecutors launch criminal investigations inwards the wake of a electrical load past times Bill Browder, the main of property managing director Hermitage Capital. Once the biggest unusual coin managing director inwards Russia, Browder has led a song stimulate against the Kremlin....
While Bloomberg had this on July 24:
...A full of 26 bankers who worked for Danske Bank A/S inwards Republic of Estonia are the targets of a novel criminal electrical load filed within the euro zone past times Bill Browder....
So, enquiring minds desire to know, "Wassup William?" 

* WSJ—"Deutsche Bank Handled $150 Billion of Potentially Suspicious Flows Tied to Danske"

I suppose at that spot is at to the lowest degree i to a greater extent than question: Who was brusk Danske Bank inwards July?

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