Deutsche Bank staff broke regulatory rules and company policy to enable clients to siphon off millions of euros in government revenues, according to an internal investigation of its role in one of Europe’s biggest tax scandals.
More than 70 current and former employees are under investigation by public prosecutors in Cologne over the multibillion-euro “cum ex” tax fraud scandal, which is the subject of a sprawling law enforcement inquiry.
Public prosecutors are investigating 1,500 people as part of the broader inquiry into the scheme, which misappropriated government revenues in a long-running fraud that involved banks including Barclays, Macquarie and UniCredit’s HypoVereinsbank.