THELOGICALINDIAN - Nordea the better coffer in the Nordic arena is reportedly doubtable of actuality allotment of a above all-embracing money bed-making aspersion The arrangement allegedly complex a Russian applicant and took abode over assorted years at an all-embracing annex of the coffer that is now closed
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Nordea Suspected of Money Laundering
Nordea Coffer Abp (Nordea), a banking casework accumulation headquartered in Finland, is doubtable of money laundering, Cph Post Online appear on Tuesday. The better coffer in the arena is allegedly complex in money bed-making that took abode amid 2010 and 2013 “in the bank’s now bankrupt all-embracing annex for all-around audience in Vesterbro [in Copenhagen, Denmark],” the advertisement detailed, adding:
The account aperture abundant that “For about four years, the artifice band has approved to accompany a bent case adjoin a Russian applicant and a aggregation in Belize in Central America, doubtable of accepting ‘washed’ about 322 actor Norwegian kroner [~$39 million] application coffer accounts in Nordea.”
Established in 1820, Nordea currently has about 300 banks with branches, subsidiaries, and adumbrative offices in 17 countries. According to its website, the coffer claims to accept 1.7 actor barter in Denmark, 2.8 actor in Finland, 0.9 actor in Norway, and 4.2 actor in Sweden. “Nordea is the better banking casework accumulation in the Nordic arena and one of the better banks in Europe,” the coffer describes itself.
Response to Alleged Money Laundering
Following letters of its declared money bed-making involvement, a Nordea backer told Reuters in an email on Thursday, “To the best of our knowledge, Nordea is not beneath analysis from authorities accompanying to money bed-making in the Baltics.”
Julie Galbo, Nordea’s arch accident officer, was quoted by Cph Post Online acceptance that the bank’s “anti-money bed-making procedures at Nordea had been bereft in the accomplished and ensured that above improvements accept been fabricated in contempo years.”
Jakob Dedenroth Bernhoft from Revisorjura, whose assignment focuses on money laundering, commented:
Recently, Danske Coffer has appear beneath blaze for allegedly bed-making about $234 billion through its Estonian branch. Reuters appear the better coffer in Denmark adage Thursday that it has “received requests for advice from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in affiliation with a bent analysis apropos to the bank’s Estonian branch.”
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