Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt were raided on Thursday morning by about 170 police officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors as part of a broad criminal investigation into alleged money laundering.
The suspicious transactions happened from 2013 to 2018, two people familiar with the details of the investigation told the Financial Times, and were carried out in the bank’s wealth management division, a unit that came under the remit of Christian Sewing until he was promoted to chief executive of Deutsche in April.
The investigation is targeting two Deutsche employees, aged 50 and 46, the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office said, without naming the suspects. It said other Deutsche employees who have not been identified are also part of the probe.