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Danske Bank money laundering probe involves $150bn

Transactions uncovered at the bank’s Estonian branch highlight the growing concern about illicit money flows from the former Soviet Union

Danske Bank money laundering probe involves $150bn

Investigators at Denmark’s largest bank are studying around $150bn of transactions that flowed through its Estonian outpost between 2007 and 2015 as part of an internal money-laundering probe, according to people familiar with the matter.

Much of that figure, which dwarfs Estonia’s total deposits, came from companies with ties to Russia and the former Soviet Union.

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