Sweden's Economic Crime Authority (EBM) widened its Swedbank investigation ...
STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s Economic Crime Authority widened its Swedbank investigation to include suspected fraud following a raid on Wednesday on the Swedish bank’s headquarters in an inquiry into its handling of money laundering allegations.
Money laundering allegations against Swedbank have sparked fears that the largest lender in the Baltic region will become embroiled in a scandal engulfing rival Danske Bank, and face the threat of lawsuits, fines and other sanctions. Bonnesen also addressed allegations by Swedish state broadcaster SVT that Swedbank was under investigation by the New York Department of Financial Services for having allegedly misled investigators over customer transactions linked to Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the center of a global tax avoidance and money laundering scandal.
“Swedbank believes that it has been truthful and accurate in its communications with all government authorities,” said Bonnesen who oversaw the bank’s anti-money laundering policy between 2009 and 2011 before heading its Baltic operations. Swedbank, whose shares closed down 11.9 percent, has lost more than a quarter of its stock market value since being linked with Danske Bank, whose Estonian branch was used for as much as 200 billion euros of suspicious payments between 2007 and 2015.
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