Authorities launch raid at Germany’s Deutsche Bank over money-laundering
The bank is cooperating fully with the public prosecutor’s office.
German authorities have launched a raid at Deutsche Bank premises in Frankfurt and Berlin over suspicions of money laundering.
The Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office said unnamed managers and employees were being targeted in Wednesday’s raid, which came one day before the country’s largest bank presented its annual results for 2025.
The investigation is being conducted by the office’s special unit for economic crime in cooperation with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
The probe is believed to be linked to the bank’s previous business dealings with foreign companies that were suspected of money laundering.
The searches were intended to secure additional evidence.
“No further information can be provided regarding the background to the business relationships, the transactions carried out via Deutsche Bank AG and their scope, or the companies themselves.”
The spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office explained on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Deutsche Bank confirmed the searches.
“We confirmed that the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office is currently conducting an investigation at Deutsche Bank’s premises,” the spokesman told dpa.
“The bank is cooperating fully with the public prosecutor’s office.
“We ask for your understanding that we cannot comment further on this matter,” he added.
Deutsche Bank has been accused of failing to uncover and act against money laundering before.
The bank’s headquarters were raided in April 2022, while the national financial supervisory authority also assigned a special representative to monitor its progress in the fight against money laundering.