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Investigative teams carried out searches at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank, the largest German commercial bank in Frankfurt am Main, and in several other facilities as part of an investigation into suspicions of money laundering .
This is the alleged assistance provided by the bank's employees to its clients for the creation of so-called off-shore companies in tax havens and the laundering of the proceeds of crime.
As announced by the Frankfurt prosecutor's office, an investigation is being opened on two Deutsche Bank employees aged 42 and 50 and on "other unidentified persons in charge" of the same institution. They are accused of not having informed of the suspicion of money laundering, although the characteristics of this crime have already been revealed during the first conversations with the client.
As the dpa agency points out, the German law requires bank employees to immediately report to the court system any suspicion that a client wishes to launder money from criminal activity or concludes a transaction to finance terrorism. The amount is not relevant here.
The case examined by the prosecutor's office concerns a company of Deutsche Bank based in the British Virgin Islands, which, in 2016 alone, has entrusted a total of 311 million euros to more than 900 clients. The proceedings in this case were opened following analyzes by the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) of the "Panama Papers" – made available through the investigation of a journalist from the office the Mossack Fonseca case law in Panama on the creation of offshore companies.
"We thought we would provide the authorities with all the information about Panama Papers, we will of course work closely with the prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main, because we also want to clarify any suspicions." In recent years, we have always proven that we work with the authorities. continues, "says Deutsche Bank.
According to the prosecutor's office, searches were carried out in six establishments – five in the counters of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt itself and in the Eschborn belonging to its agglomeration, as well as in a private apartment in Gross-Umstadt in Hesse. 170 people from the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office, the BKA, the Tax Police and the Federal Police took part in the campaign and obtained detailed documentation in paper and electronic form.
Source: PAP, niezalezna.pl
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