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Former Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen sentenced to prison

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Martina Lindberg

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Bonnesen provided misleading information about money laundering connections in the bank’s Estonian offices to Swedish news media.

Birgitte Bonnesen, the former CEO of Sweden’s oldest bank Swedbank, has been sentenced to prison for one year and three months after being convicted of gross fraud.

Bonnesen earlier denied all charges, and was found not guilty by the district court regarding statements she made in 2018 and 2019,

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