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Nordic bank Nordea charged in largest money-laundering case in Danish history

The front of the nordic bank Nordea in Bornholm, Denmark.
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Martina Lindberg

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National Special Crime Unit said this was the the most comprehensive case of violations of the Money Laundering Act in the Danish banking sector.

The Nordic bank Nordea, headquartered in Finland, has been charged with AML failings on around DKr 26 billion ($3.8 billion) of transactions from its Russian clients between 2012 and 2015.

The charges were brought by Denmark’s National Special Crime Unit (NSK), which found that the bank failed to properly investigated the Russian clients’

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