A court in Copenhagen has sent a social worker to prison for 6 years 5 months after she was found guilty of embezzling welfare money for decades, approximately $17 million. Britta Nielsen was extradited from South Africa, where she had fled after becoming a suspect in what is considered the worst corruption scandal of its kind. The case shocked Denmark. The Nordic nation is still trying to track down billions of dollars lost through a combination of tax evasion and a botched handling of foreign claims on dividend taxes. Meanwhile, Denmark’s biggest lender, Danske Bank A/S, is at the centre of an historic money-laundering scandal.
Denmark: Corruption & money laundering
Written by Super User 28 Feb 2020Additional Info
- Pray: for safeguarding mechanisms for government funds, for banking systems to be strengthened, for the millions of ‘lost’ moneys to be recovered and used for the welfare it was meant to fund. (Proverbs 11:1)
- More: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/danish-social-worker-convicted-over-17-million-welfare-fraud-1.1391892