Denmark’s public prosecutor announced on Wednesday that a Danish lady has been charged in a money laundering case involving more than 30 billion Danish crowns ($4.55 billion) funneled via Danske Bank’s Estonian branch.
According to sources, the 49-year-old Danish citizen with ties to Russia is currently undergoing preliminary questioning at Copenhagen municipal court, where it will be decided whether she will be held in detention.
According to the prosecution, the woman was extradited to Denmark from the United Kingdom, where she had been held in detention.
The case was discovered during an inquiry into one of the world’s worst money laundering scams at Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest lender, in which two other persons have been charged.
Authorities in many countries are looking into Danske after more than 200 billion euros in suspicious transactions passed through its Estonian branch between 2007 and 2015.
In the same case, a 47-year-old woman was remanded at detention in Copenhagen municipal court in May.
Between March 2008 and March 2016, the three suspects are accused of laundering money through multiple limited partnerships, all of which had bank accounts in Danske’s now-defunct Estonian branch.
