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According to information from the "Panama Papers", the first German bank is suspected "to have helped customers to create companies in tax havens" to launder money "from criminal offenses", explains the floor in a statement.
"It is true that the police are currently investigating several sites of our bank, (…) in connection with the Panama Papers," confirmed Deutsche Bank, promising to "cooperate fully".
According to the prosecutor's office, some 170 magistrates, police and tax service agents started the search of the bank's premises in Frankfurt, Eschborn and Gross-Umstadt on Thursday morning, seizing "numerous written and electronic documents".
Their investigations are aimed at "two employees aged 46 and 50", whose names or functions were not disclosed, as well as "a certain number of unidentified managers of the company", all of whom are suspected of "laundering". money".
Investigators blame the suspects for "not reporting suspicions of money laundering against offshore tax fraud companies" before the April 2016 revelation of the Panama Papers scandal, despite the bank's willingness to sufficient elements from the beginning of his relationship "with these customers.
In 2016 alone, says the prosecutor's office, a branch of Deutsche Bank based in the British Virgin Islands has supported "more than 900 customers representing a business volume of 311 million euros".
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DEUTSCHE BANK
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