{"id":306306,"date":"2018-11-29T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306306"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:47:48","slug":"police-raid-deutsche-bank-hqs-in-frankfurt-over-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-raid-deutsche-bank-hqs-in-frankfurt-over-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Police raid Deutsche Bank HQs in Frankfurt over money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306307 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01-696x566.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01-517x420.jpg 517w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181129-221554__01.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Police on November 29 raided Deutsche Bank&#8217;s headquarters (HQ) and multiple other locations in Frankfurt as a part of a money-laundering investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports nearly 170 police officers and tax investigators raided the bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a statement from prosecutors, the raids were targeted at two Deutsche Bank employees and others who have not yet been identified. The bank is suspected to have helped clients to set up offshore accounts to &#8220;transfer money from criminal activities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Authorities seized documents and electronic files and said they were also looking at whether others might have been involved in the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deutsche Bank spokesman Joerg Eigendorf reportedly said, \u201cAs far as we are concerned, we have already provided the authorities with all the relevant information regarding the Panama Papers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The investigation was initiated by revelations in 2016 \u201cPanama Papers\u201d, an investigation into money laundering networks and shell companies set up by Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police on November 29 raided Deutsche Bank&#8217;s headquarters (HQ) and multiple other locations in Frankfurt as a part of a money-laundering investigation. According to reports nearly 170 police officers and tax investigators raided the bank. According to a statement from prosecutors, the raids were targeted at two Deutsche Bank employees and others who have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306308,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306306\/revisions\/306308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}