Collaborated with the Russians and washed money: a scandal around the largest bank broke out in Denmark
According to the court documents, the Bank secretly transferred money from clients with "high risk" to the Russian Federation into the US financial system. Thus, Danske Bank clients were able to access US banks by handling $ 160 billion on their behalf. It is known that from 2008 to 2016, Danske Bank conducted banking services through its branch in Estonia Danske Bank Estoonia. There was a profitable business line of service for non-resident clients, known as NRP.
Danske Bank Estonia attracted NRP clients by being able to transfer large sums of money through this bank almost unattended. There was a conspiracy between Danske Bank in Estonia and NRP clients to hide the true nature of their transactions, including with the help of false companies that hid the actual ownership of funds. "For many years, Danske Bank has lied and deceived US banks to pump billions of dollars of suspicious and criminal funds through the US financial system.
The largest bank in Denmark, deliberately neglected by the US laws that he was well aware The United States and threatened the US financial network, "said US prosecutor Demien Williams. After the investigation, the bank found itself guilty of one point of the prosecution: a conspiracy for bank fraud. According to the terms of the Agreement on Failure, the company agreed to criminal confiscation of $ 2. 059 billion.
10 months after a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv arrested the Premier Palace Hotel, Premier Hotel Rus and other hotels in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine. These objects, according to investigators, belong to the VS Energy Group, which is controlled by Russian businessmen Alexander Babakov, Yevgeny Giner and Mikhail Voevodin.
According to the Scheme project, the court seized the capital of the so-called "Luzhnik" group, in particular, on 7 hotels of the Premier Hotels & Resorts in Kiev, Lviv, Odessa and Alexandria, non-residential premises Metropolis "in Kiev. The judge did not grant the request of the Prosecutor General's office to ban the use of this property. Almost a month ago, the Security Service of Ukraine was searched to VS Energy, which is associated with Russian oligarchs.