They are about a special risk customer group, those who have an account in Estonia without being written there. Since 2005, this customer group has flowed around SEK 890 billion, of which SEK 39 billion in 2018, calculated in today's rate. The customers where, according to the bank, transparency is particularly poor, and the risk of money laundering is therefore high, has accounted for more than SEK 270 billion. That group has gone from a maximum of SEK 86 billion in 2006 to nothing in 2018, according to SEB.
"Due to the extensive analysis we have made of the bank's history in the Baltic countries, we have not been able to see that SEB has been systematically used for money laundering," writes Johan Torgeby, CEO, in a press release.
The customer group is of the same type that was reviewed in Swedbank, among others. SVT's assignment review revealed last winter that at least SEK 40 billion had been locked through suspicious accounts. According to a lawyer report ordered by Swedbank, its client group had spent around SEK 1,400 billion in ten years.
SEB has recently stated in press releases that SVT's Assignment Review has asked questions about money laundering. SVT and TT are collaborating on such a bank review that has not yet been published.