Danish woman remanded in custody after money laundering scandal
A Danish woman has been remanded in custody for her role in a money laundering case where more than 30 billion Danish kroner (40.1 billion Norwegian kroner) was channeled through Danske Bank’s branch in Estonia, writes Reuters.
The 49-year-old Danish citizen appeared for questioning in Copenhagen, where she was detained for 21 days.
In questioning, the woman was able to announce that she was shocked when the police came to her house in England in July last year and seized all of the computers and telephones. The woman, whose name has not been released, had been extradited to Denmark from the UK, where she was detained, the prosecutor told Reuters. The woman is also connected to Russia.
Danske Bank is being investigated by authorities in several countries after more than 200 billion euros in suspicious transactions flowed through the Estonian branch from 2007 to 2015. Other people have also been misunderstood in the case. Charges against former top manager of Danske Bank, Thomas Borgen, and eight other top managers have been dropped by the Danish public prosecutor.
The charges against the three suspects claim that they have laundered money via several companies, all of which had bank accounts in Danske’s now closed Estonian branch, between March 2008 and March 2016.