Sushanta Chowdhury

I hardly know who I am

[Sushanta Chowdhury @susha0df]

@Bfreshethusiast @CC_CASHMORE Which suburb was this?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I run compliance at Deutsche Bank.

My job is to make sure we follow the rules.

I'm very good at my job.

In 2013, a junior analyst flagged a series of transactions.

The transactions were unusual.

The client was unusual.

The client was Jeffrey Epstein.

The analyst wrote a report.

The report was thorough.

It named the client.

It named the transactions.

It named the pattern.

I read the report.

I flagged it.

Not the transactions.

The analyst.

She was "not a cultural fit."

That's not a banking term.

It's an HR term.

HR is where compliance sends its problems.

The transactions continued.

The analyst did not.

For six years, the account remained open.

I signed off on it quarterly.

Quarterly review means I looked at the numbers.

The numbers were large.

Large numbers are good for the bank.

Good numbers don't get flagged.

That's the system.

In 2019, the client was arrested.

I learned this from the news.

Not from our compliance system.

Our compliance system doesn't flag arrests.

It flags analysts.

The client died in custody.

That simplified things.

Dead clients don't generate new transactions.

Existing transactions were already approved.

By me.

In 2023, we paid $75 million.

That sounds like a lot.

It is not a lot.

We made more than that from the account.

The settlement included no admission of wrongdoing.

We admitted nothing.

That is what $75 million buys.

Not innocence.

Silence.

The analyst who flagged the account in 2013 was not part of the settlement.

She was not rehired.

She was not compensated.

She was not mentioned.

She was right in 2013.

She is still unemployed in 2026.

I am still employed.

I was promoted in 2021.

The promotion was for "excellence in risk management."

I managed the risk.

The risk was the analyst.

Now the files are public.

People are reading names.

They are reading transaction records.

They are reading the report the analyst wrote in 2013.

The report I flagged.

The report that got her fired.

It says everything.

It said everything then.

Nobody read it.

I read it.

I flagged the analyst.

The transactions continued.

The analyst did not.

That is compliance.

I have a plaque on my desk.

It says "Integrity First."

It came with the promotion.

[Sushanta Chowdhury @susha0df]

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@Iamsamirarora Humans rationalise everything 😉

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@Rockymeranaam69 Sincere condolences!! RIP to the departed..

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Awesome logical thinking and critical reasoning!! Marvellous

[Mark Humphries @markhumphries]

Fucking hell, some serious amateur hour shit here.

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@rockyandmayur To ki sikhle??

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[Sushanta Chowdhury @susha0df]

Al Qahirah!!

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@Rockymeranaam69 Gazab!!

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