Danske, Denmark’s largest lender, went from being one of Europe’s most respected financial institutions to cautionary tale, after a US Department of Justice investigation found that €200bn in non-resident monies had flowed through its Estonian branch, from 2007 until 2015.
In 2018, Estonian prosecutors detained ten former employees on suspicion of knowingly enabling money laundering. The firm’s troubles were compounded when a new CEO, Chris Vogelzang, was forced to resign in April of last year, after being implicated in a separate money scandal at his former employer, Dutch bank ABN AMRO.1 (See 2022 UPDATE | Netherlands)
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