Amount of money laundered via Danske Bank Estonia could be €7 billion - ERR

Amount of money laundered via Danske Bank Estonia could be €7 billion - ERR (1)

Eestlased Eestis | 05 Jul 2018 | EWR

As much as €7 billion in laundered money may have gone through Danske Bank's Estonian operations, it has been reported.

If this is the case, it would constitute one of the largest known money laundering cases in Europe, according to Bloomberg.

Suspicions of money laundering via the Estonian branch of Danske had been raised before, it is reported, but the estimated figure is around twice that previously thought, according to Danish daily Berlingske and confirmed by Bloomberg.

It represents roughly a third of Danske's total market value, which is almost 3% of Denmark's total GDP, and up to a third of that of Estonia.

Following the latest allegations, Danske's head of group compliance Anders Meinert Jørgensen, stated that "it is too soon to draw any conclusions about the extent of the potential money laundering in Estonia."

"This is the reason why we have not ourselves published figures or commented on speculations about potential amounts,'' he went on.

''On several occasions, however, we have said that the extent [of the suspected money laundering] seems to be somewhat larger than previously estimated," Mr. Jorgenson continued.

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Margus Jukkum12 Jul 2018 12:26

During the time that this money laundering on a grand scale was happening it should be remembered that Andrus Ansip was the Prime Minister of Estonia and the Reform Party formed the government. As the columnist Ahto Lobjakas has pointed out, most recently in the weekly radio program 'Olukorrast Riigis' (July 8, 2018), this brings up two distinct possibilities. One - the government and Ansip knew about the movement of these vast sums of money and was complicit and corrupt, or two - the government and Ansip knew nothing and was incompetent thereby damaging Estonia's reputation and credibility in Europe.

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