In summer 2013 Danske bank employees discovered that one of these UK entities, Lantana Trade LLP, had filed “false accounts” to Companies House. According to the whistleblower report, Lantana told Companies House that it was “dormant”, with only a very limited financial turnover. Baltic countries are a major entry point into the western financial system for Russian cash. Deutsche Bank – the main lender to Donald Trump – paid $630m in US-UK fines for laundering Russian cash. According to a whistleblower at the Danish bank, Russian bankers moved millions through an opaque network of offshore vehicles.

Source: The Guardian February 26, 2018 18:00 UTC