An employee is suspected of siphoning off funds directly from the account of a Danske Bank customer at the institution’s Leppävaara branch in Espoo, according to a statement by the western Uusimaa police department.
The employee, whose age was given by police as 29, is also believed to have forged bank documents to obtain consumer loans and then using the credit granted. Police say that the case involves a considerable amount of money.
Danske Bank said that it had contacted the customers affected by the workers’ wrongdoing. However it noted that the customers would not suffer any financial losses.
The bank made a request for an investigation at the beginning of August after the alleged improprieties came to light during an internal audit. The offences were committed over a period of a year and a half. Police are treating the suspected offences as aggravated fraud and aggravated embezzlement.
Police said that the suspect had been in detention for roughly two weeks and had confessed to the offences. A preliminary investigation is underway and should be completed during the autumn, they added.