Berlin the head of the private bank Berenberg and future president of the banking Association BdB, Hans-Walter Peters, sees his institute after the unveiling of the “Panama Papers” wrongly criticized.
“All our stores are clean to 100 percent,” Peters told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”: “There is not a single depot, we of the the people behind them, do not know the beneficial owner. ” In the documents of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, over the past week reported an international research network, also appears on Berenberg. The Bank should have given 13 shell companies and 76 offshore accounts provided.
Peters will be officially introduced on Monday at the annual reception of the BdB in his new position as president of the association. The keynote speech will keep Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.
“It was and is not our business model to contribute to the creation of shell companies,” said Peters. It is certainly true that Berenberg led in Switzerland accounts of companies, customers of Mossack Fonseca in Canada were. But also in Zurich was “everything legally, permanently checked by the authorities and auditors” and went without complaint. The Swiss Berenberg have cooperated with the asset management business of Panamanian law firm as custodian and was only responsible for the safekeeping and transaction execution. “Everything else was caused by the asset management company of” Peters said.
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