Three Russian-born and one Swiss-born former bankers for Gazprombank Switzerland convicted for failing to adequately report information on the account of Sergei Roldugin, a childhood friend of President Putin
In 2016, when reports named Roldugin as the owner of $2 billion in offshore assets, Putin denied having any links to offshore accounts and described the Panama Papers leaks as part of Western efforts to weaken Russia.
Lawyers for all the defendants immediately announced plans to appeal, according to an email from a spokesman for Gazprombank Switzerland, which is in the process of winding down its operations and was not itself facing charges. In a statement, the Zurich regional prosecutors office said it welcomed the verdicts as “an important signal that due diligence obligations under money laundering law must be observed.”
Documents filed when the accounts were opened listed expected transactions of 11.5 million Swiss francs . The indictment didn't indicate how much may have arrived at the bank, but noted how Putin has “enormous assets managed by people close to him.”
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