Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Top firm hired snoopers to spy on staff


Nice going, dudes! Deutsche Bank didn't just spy on members of its management and supervisory boards. It also snooped on the personal life of a troublesome shareholder, according to a report it commissioned to investigate the matter. Now officials at Germany's largest bank fear they may be facing a lawsuit.

An investigation commissioned by Deutsche Bank has revealed that Germany's largest bank spied on several of its management board members, supervisory board members and on at least one shareholder. The 150-page report was prepared by legal firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann has been presiding over an internal investigation into a snooping scandal at his bank. Leading executives at the bank hired external "specialists" to solve their security problems -- some of them real, some of them imagined -- and those specialists in some cases resorted to dubious methods.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,634561,00.html

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