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LATEST: Danske Bank completes US probation over Estonia dirty money scandal

By Stine Jacobsen

DANSKE Bank has completed a three-year corporate probation with the U.S. Department of Justice, marking the end of all formal regulatory processes tied to its former Estonian branch.

Denmark’s biggest lender came under investigation in multiple countries after saying in 2018 that an internal probe had uncovered about 200 billion euros of payments from Russia and elsewhere made through the Estonian branch, with many appearing suspicious.

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