Danske in €200bn money laundering scandal
Official investigations are ongoing in Denmark and Estonia
Danske Bank chief executive Thomas Borgen will step down amid allegations his bank was at the centre of a major European money laundering scandal with as much as €200 billion flowing through a tiny Estonian unit.
The laundromat case has shocked Denmark, a country generally associated with some of the world’s lowest levels of corruption and highest levels of transparency. Criminal complaints against Danske have so far suggested its Estonian unit was used ...