Whistleblower to appear before parliament
The Danske Bank employee who blew the whistle on the money laundering scandal in Estonia has agreed to testify at both the Danish and EU parliaments. Howard Wilkinson, a British national who headed…
More2006 assassination linked to Danske Bank scandal
The Danske Bank scandal took a bizarre twist yesterday when American news and opinion website, the Daily Beast, reported that a Russian banking executive who died under mysterious circumstances in 2006 was the original…
MoreBusiness shorts
Danske Bank stock plummets / Nordea profits drop in Q3 / Carlsberg boosted by hot summer / Norway warned by Denmark about tax scam Danske Bank shares have taken a nosedive in the…
MoreGovernment summons Saudi ambassador over murder allegations
The government has summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to demand an explanation over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Turkish parliament, Tuesday, the killing was a…
MoreSocialists call for trade ban on Saudi Arabia
The Socialist People’s Party (SPP) has urged the government to consider trade restrictions against Saudi Arabia following the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Denmark exported DKK7.2bn ($1.1bn) of goods and services to…
MoreDPP demands more immigration restrictions for budget support
The Danish People’s Party (DPP) is pushing for even stricter immigration policy as their price for supporting the government’s 2019 budget. Finance spokesman René Christensen said although the government has imposed new restrictions…
MoreConsumer confidence down
Despite the strong economy, low unemployment, and the booming housing market, the consumer confidence index fell in October the latest Statistics Denmark figures show. The monthly survey, which asks a cross section of…
MoreBribe company awarded new multi-million state contract
An IT company involved in Denmark’s biggest ever public sector corruption case has been awarded a new DKK720m ($110m) purchasing contract. Two ex-bosses of Atea, the leading supplier of IT infrastructure and system…
MoreDanske Bank suspected of misleading watchdog
In a new twist to the long-running Danske Bank money laundering scandal, Denmark’s biggest bank is suspected of deliberately misleading the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). Business Minister Rasmus Jarlov told parliament’s business committee,…
MoreDanske Bank e-mails went missing
The e-mail accounts of top Danske Bank officials implicated in the Estonia money laundering scandal were wiped out before an independent investigation got underway, Berlingske reports today. Experts have dismissed the probe by…
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