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Tidligere topchef i svensk storbank skal i fængsel

Laura Bitte Rossau

(FILES) This file photo taken on March 22, 2019 shows then Swedbank's CEO Birgitte Bonnesen speaking during an interview in Stockholm, Sweden. - The former chief executive of Swedish bank Swedbank, Birgitte Bonnesen, was on January 25, 2023 acquitted of charges of fraud and sharing insider information, a court said. The ruling from the Stockholm District Court comes four years after the eruption of a money laundering scandal implicating the bank. In 2019, Swedish public service broadcaster SVT alleged that at least 40 billion kronor (equivalent at the time to USD 4.4 billion) of suspicious and high-risk transactions had been channelled to Baltic countries, notably Estonia, from Swedbank accounts. (Photo by Janerik HENRIKSSON / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 22, 2019 shows then Swedbank's CEO Birgitte Bonnesen speaking during an interview in Stockholm, Sweden. - The former chief executive of Swedish bank Swedbank, Birgitte Bonnesen, was on January 25, 2023 acquitted of charges of fraud and sharing insider information, a court said. The ruling from the Stockholm District Court comes four years after the eruption of a money laundering scandal implicating the bank. In 2019, Swedish public service broadcaster SVT alleged that at least 40 billion kronor (equivalent at the time to USD 4.4 billion) of suspicious and high-risk transactions had been channelled to Baltic countries, notably Estonia, from Swedbank accounts. (Photo by Janerik HENRIKSSON / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT Foto: Janerik Henriksson/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
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Et år og tre måneder. 

Så længe skal den tidligere dansk-svenske topchef i Swedbank Birgitte Bonnesen i fængsel, skriver Reuters.

Meldingen kommer efter en svensk appelret tirsdag har fundet Birgitte Bonnesen skyldig i groft bedrageri på grund af hendes håndtering af anti-hvidvaskningsprotokoller i Estland.

Sagen mod Bonnesen fik sin begyndelse i 2019, da svenske journalister i en dokumentar afslørede suspekte transaktioner i Swedbanks estiske filial.

Transaktionerne havde direkte forbindelse til Danske Banks estiske filial, der forinden var afsløret i at haft mistænkelige pengestrømme gennem sig.

56-årige Birgitte Bonnesen blev fyret i kølvandet på afsløringen, men hun nåede at have sin daglige gang i Sveriges største bank, Swedbank, i over 30 år. I 2011 og tre år frem var hun chef for Swedbanks baltiske filialer – og i 2016 blev hun bankens øverste direktør.