Julius Baer Has Law Firm Look at Panama Banker Accounts

  • Matthias Krull pleaded guilty to role in money-laundering plot
  • Lawyers to probe $500 million worth of Krull’s accounts

The Julius Baer Group Ltd. headquarters office in Zurich, Switzerland.

Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg
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Julius Baer has turned to a U.S. law firm to help scour the accounts of convicted banker Matthias Krull, who pleaded guilty in August to helping launder $1.2 billion from Venezuela’s state-owned oil producer, according to people familiar with the move.

Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the bank’s outside counsel in the U.S., is leading the review, three people with knowledge of the matter said, asking not to be identified because it’s confidential.