The man behind money-laundering allegations against Danske Bank A/S has been freed of his confidentiality obligations, paving the way for lawmakers to get whistle-blower testimony on one of Europe’s biggest ever dirty-money scandals.
Howard Wilkinson, a British citizen who used to head Danske’s Baltic trading operations, worked in that job from 2007 until April 2014. That’s four months after he says he first alerted management in Copenhagen to the suspicious transactions he had witnessed, according to the Berlingske newspaper, which became the vehicle through which Wilkinson would provide information to the public.
