Yanukovych laundered $4.2 mln through Swedbank - media
According to the report, via a company called Vega Holding Limited which had an account with Swedbank in Lithuania, Yanukovych transferred EUR 3.7 million ($4.2 million) through the Swedish lender in 2011.
According to SVT, Swedbank has known about the Yanukovych transfer since 2017, when Ukrainian authorities sent a request to the bank for information about that specific account.
Asked by SVT whether he knew that Yanukovych had done business through Swedbank, spokesman Gabriel Francke Rodau said: "I didn't know, and if I had I wouldn't have been able to comment on it, because of bank confidentiality."
It emerged on February 21, 2019, that Swedbank was suspected of involvement in large-scale money laundering, which led to a major financial scandal in the Baltic region. About 50 Swedbank clients transferred about 40 billion kronor ($4.3 billion) to suspicious accounts in transactions between Swedbank and Danske Bank from 2007 to 2015.
On January 24, 2019, the Obolonsky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Yanukovych in absentia to 13 years in prison for treason and aiding in waging an aggressive war. At the same time, Yanukovych was found not guilty on charges of violating Ukraine's territorial integrity. According to the court verdict, Yanukovych's prison term will be counted from the time he is arrested.
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