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German prosecutors’ raid on Deutsche Bank hurts the lender’s attempts to leave its long history of compliance failures in the past
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Fortune | FORTUNE
It is based on an allegedly late filing of a suspicious activity report,” a spokesperson for Deutsche Bank told Fortune.
Deutsche Bank has been trying to overcome a long history of compliance failures and regulatory scandals.
Deutsche Bank considers all such claims to be entirely without merit and will defend itself against them robustly,” a Deutsche Bank spokesperson said, emphasizing that Sewing was not named in the latest London legal filing.
David Zaring, a business ethics and law professor at Wharton, said Wednesday’s raid makes him wonder if Deutsche Bank will ever get out from under its past.
Deutsche Bank allegedly facilitated approximately $627 million in so-called “mirror trades” through Danske Bank in Lithuania—part of what became Europe’s largest money laundering scandal.