on thursday police began searching offices at deutsche bank prosecutors say staff at germany's largest financial institution might have helped customers set up offshore companies to launder money. after a series of scandals in recent years the new accusation could hit that bank card debt had ducked a gap see the suspicion arose in the summer and august of twenty eighteen after the federal criminal police office evaluated data from the panama papers and the so-called offshore lakes. and this evaluation but to this is special in that deutsche bank was helping clients set up so-called offshore companies in tax havens . and from their money is said to have floated orchard bank without the bank reporting any suspicion of money laundering of the bank. and saga started out of the allegations alone are enough to weaken an already embattled bank shares and