Encore: how €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
How did Denmark’s Danske Bank find itself at the centre of one of the largest money-laundering scandals the world has ever seen? The FT’s Richard Milne explains. This episode was originally published on October 30, 2018.
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| 0:29.7 | Earlier this year, reporting by the Financial Times and other news organizations |
| 0:36.4 | exposed one of the largest money laundering scandals the world had ever seen. Danish lender Danska Banks says billions of euros flowed through its accounts from Russia |
| 0:50.0 | and ex-Soviet states. |
| 0:51.7 | The Probes Center on the Bank's tiny subsidiary in Estonia |
| 0:55.4 | lacks controls there, allowed through more than $230 billion. |
| 1:00.3 | They came from thousands of suspicious customers outside Estonia. |
| 1:07.2 | And now Danske Bank is facing fines of up to about $8 billion. This is behind the money with the Financial Times. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Amy Keene. Today on the show, how did the Danish Bank find itself embroiled in the scandal and |
| 1:29.1 | just how far might it reach? |
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