| Summary: | A report on Howard Wilkinson, the whistleblower who discovered and revealed Danske Bank was involved in the laundering of approximately $230 billion coming from Russia and former Soviet Union states. Wilkinson worked at a small branch of Danish bank Danske in Estonia, and when asked by a colleague for help with one of the branch's large clients, discovered the client was merely a shell corporation whose public record claimed it was a dormant company but was passing up to $20 million a day through the bank in Russian rubles and withdrawing the money as US dollars. After Wilkinson's whistleblower report, Danske Bank was slow to respond to his concerns and he resigned. An investigation, which is still ongoing, eventually opened into Danske Bank and the money laundering; Wilkinson says it will be very difficult to trace it now. Includes an interview with Stephen Kohn, Wilkinson's lawyer.
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