Florian Mueller
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Every time the bank thinks that they can look into the future, something from the past pops up.
And the question is, when will this actually stop?
Most of these raids are connected to the bank's past.
It's actually the first raid which happened this year was in January, and it was connected to a probe into the bank's anti-money laundering controls.
Basically, the suspicion is that Deutsche Bank filed some reports too late about transactions which involved companies linked to a Russian oligarch.
The second raid, which happened a little bit over a week ago,
was related to a ex-employee who was working in the retail branch of the bank at the ground floor of its Twin Tower headquarters, who is alleged to have embezzled a six figure sum from customers of the bank.
The raid which happened yesterday is again connected to something which already happened years ago.
In this case, it's about some tax swapping agreements, which a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank went into back between the years of 2008 and 2010, which were probably designed in a way to avoid paying withholding tax on the dividends.
All of those situations are quite different.
The common denominator there is most of them are things which happened quite some years in the past, but they continue to haunt the bank.
So even though the bank nowadays is in a much better state than it was a couple of years ago, still a lot of these legacy cases come back and prosecutors are still busy working through all of the compliance issues which happened years and years ago at the bank.
So the bank has maintained that they are cooperating with the authorities.
And they've also said that they have invested a lot into strengthening their controls over the past couple of years and that the bank is now in a much more stable state than it used to be.
So the recent rates this year are actually bringing up a lot of memories of earlier times when the bank was, for example, in 2018, really struggling with profitability.
And then a lot of rates happened related to a lot of different scandals, which at the time actually risked the survival of the bank.
That's what some insiders have told me.
So compared to those years, now the bank is in a much better state.
So I think that each investigation individually is not such a big deal, but just the pure fact that they keep popping up at a moment when the bank actually wants to look at growth and
And when they think or want to make their investors think that they're worth the trust and the money again, it's a constant nuisance for the bank.
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