Europe's other safety currency, the Danish Krone, is similarly vulnerable.

By comparison, it would cost up to four billion Danish krone ($627 million) to prevent this from happening.

At 149 Danish Krone, these cost just $20 for two.

These British pounds, euros, US dollars, even Danish krone, were for spending at home, or sometimes to buy villas and flats abroad.

Jan 2005 - OMX merges with Copenhagen Stock Exchange in a deal that valued the CSE at 1.22 billion Danish krone.

Danish hearing aid company GN Store Nord GN.CO gained 7 percent after announcing a 1 billion Danish krone share buyback and beating profit expectations.

It had 2012 revenues of 5962 million Danish Krone or 800 million euros and net profits of 682 million Danish Krone or 91.5 million euros.

Boasting 120,000 employees worldwide and annual turnover approaching 15 billion Danish krone (£1.6 billion), ISS also owns the firm Contract Cleaners in the Republic.

Danish newspaper Berlingske reported that as much as 53 billion Danish krone (€7.1 billion) of suspicious money had flowed through the Estonian branch of Danske.