Swedbank dismissed Birgitte Bonnesen as chief executive only an hour before its annual meeting after disgruntled shareholders rounded on her handling of a rapidly growing money laundering scandal. The lender had repeatedly said it had faith in Bonnesen to calm concerns over allegations that Swedbank's Baltic accounts were used to launder money, but the Swedish economic crime authority's decision on Wednesday to broaden its probe to cover suspected fraud proved to be the final straw for its board.
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机译:瑞典银行(Bank of Swedbank)在年度股东大会召开前一小时就解散了比尔吉特·邦纳森(Birgitte Bonnesen)为首席执行官,此前股东不满,要求其处理迅速增长的洗钱丑闻。瑞银曾多次表示,它对邦内森(Bonnesen)充满信心,以平息有关瑞典银行波罗的海账户被用来洗钱的指控的担忧,但瑞典经济犯罪当局周三决定扩大调查范围以涵盖涉嫌欺诈行为的决定被证明是其最后的救命稻草。板。
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