A senior in-house lawyer at Deutsche Bank is among those being held by police following a raid at the bank's headquarters on Thursday, two sources familiar with the proceedings told Reuters. The lawyer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was not available for comment. Both Deutsche Bank and Frankfurt prosecutor Guenter Wittig declined to comment.
Four Deutsche Bank employees were detained without possibility of bail on Thursday following a raid of its twin-tower headquarters in Frankfurt as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering and obstruction of justice related to a carbon trading scheme.
One of the sources said none of the four were traders, but included staff from the legal and IT departments of Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank's co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen and chief financial officer Stefan Krause were also being investigated, Deutsche Bank said on Thursday. None of the four detained employees has been charged. The lawyer was involved with the bank's long-running legal battle against the late media mogul Leo Kirch, the sources said.
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