A few days ago, a well-known businessman who had got a loan of about 15 million euros received an unexpected call from his bank.

He was asked to return about 5 million euros because, as the bank found out, he did not use the loan to help his business. Instead, in 2010 he transferred the money in a bank in Switzerland.

This is one of about 5,000 similar cases. Many businessmen, who had received large loans in the past, did not invest the money to support their business. Instead, they chose to transfer the money to banks abroad, buy houses or luxury cars.

According to banks which cooperate with Financial and Economic Crime Unit, the total amount reaches 15 to 18 billion euros.

The banks focus their efforts and investigations mainly to heavily indebted businesses which had previously got large loans, but now they do not care about the future of their company.