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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Feb 27, 2018, 01:32 PM Feb 2018

Report: Putin family used Estonian bank for money laundering

Source: Associated Press

By JAN M. OLSEN
1 hour ago

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish newspaper said Tuesday a whistleblower warned the management of Denmark’s biggest bank in 2013 that family members of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s spy agency were using its Estonian bank branch for money laundering.

Denmark’s Berlingske daily says the leaked internal report indicated that the Danske Bank leadership knew “of far more serious conditions than previously stated.”

The paper adds that Danske Bank in 2013 shut down 20 Russian customer accounts following a whistleblower report alleging that its Estonian branch possibly had been involved in illegal activity. The clients’ identities were kept secret at the time.

The paper shared details of the scheme with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a group of anti-corruption reporters, and Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/b78c6d8baa4d4dc796882f3da574e332/Report:-Putin-family-used-Estonian-bank-for-money-laundering

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Report: Putin family used Estonian bank for money laundering (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP

Hope the whistleblower knows how to swim... bearsfootball516 Feb 2018 #1

Interesting! truthisfreedom Feb 2018 #2

So there's that weird Trump Tower deal Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #3

The casinos made no money bucolic_frolic Feb 2018 #4

Yeah, sure. TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #5

4 bankruptcies Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #6

Because TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #7

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)

1. Hope the whistleblower knows how to swim...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 01:39 PM

Feb 2018

truthisfreedom

(23,159 posts)

2. Interesting!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 01:41 PM

Feb 2018

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)

3. So there's that weird Trump Tower deal

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 01:43 PM

Feb 2018

in Azerbijian. Eric Prince has his meeting in the Seychelles. Bet Mueller has been a busy, busy boy. Does it seem like the Russians have been playing "hide the money" all over the world?

bucolic_frolic

(43,353 posts)

4. The casinos made no money

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 02:12 PM

Feb 2018

it was all milked off and hidden overseas?

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)

5. Yeah, sure.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 02:34 PM

Feb 2018

The casinos made no money, and fat babies don't fart.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,468 posts)

6. 4 bankruptcies

Reply to TwistOneUp (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 08:01 PM

Feb 2018

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/index.html

Donald Trump brags about how well his businesses have fared in bankruptcy. And in fact, no major U.S. company has filed for Chapter 11 more than Trump's casino empire in the last 30 years.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)

7. Because

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:52 PM

Feb 2018

Bc profits are all cash and Cheetolini siphoned that off to be laundered by his rooskie paymasters. No doubt Cheetolini owns several Maltese companies.

When I first saw that Malta was involved, I knew that the rooskies were involved. Rooskie mob money runs Malta (and keeps the island's economy afloat).

This is fraud. And the interesting thing about fraud is that the statute of limitations does not apply to fraud. Commit fraud when you're 21, and they can still prosecute you when you are 79...

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