Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank suspects Russian clients laundering six billion

Deutsche Bank AG is suspected of laundering billions of dollars to six clients from Russia. Appropriate shady transaction lasted more than four years. On Friday, June 5, Bloomberg reported citing its sources.

"We have temporarily suspended from work a few employees, Deutsche Bank Moscow until the results of the internal audit" - told of rain in the press service of the Deutsche Bank.

An internal investigation in the Russian branch of DB began in the spring of this year. According to Bloomberg, the bank studies conducted by some customers operations with shares on the Russian market in the period from 2011 to early 2015. Including it comes to buying Russian clients of securities in rubles by Deutsche Bank, which committed both to transactions in London, when the bank bought the same stock for dollars. Deutsche Bank figures out whether to use Russian clients these transactions to remove cash from the country without proper notification of the authorities.

Check Deutsche Bank began after in October 2014 the Central Bank of Russia said to him with a request to examine the transactions of some Russian clients. This investigation of a credit institution also warned the European Central Bank, the British Office of Financial Regulation and Supervision and the Federal Office for Supervision of the financial sector in Germany (Bafin).

Deutsche Bank is one of the largest foreign investment banks in Russia and more than a thousand employees in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In March 2015, recalls Slon.ru, the credit institution has published its own research, which says that in the past ten years in Britain was secretly transferred almost £ 100 billion. Most of this money, according to Deutsche Bank, are the means which are washed Investors from Russia.

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