Has deutche bank filed with the courts to call in the criminals loans
Executive summary
There is no clear, sourced record in the provided reporting that "Deutsche Bank has filed with the courts to call in the criminals' loans" as a discrete, identifiable legal action; the documents and articles supplied instead show a bank that is the subject of multiple lawsuits, regulatory settlements, and both creditor and borrower litigation, but not a straightforward public filing described in those terms [1] [2] [3]. Reporting shows Deutsche Bank settling large federal claims tied to past lending and mortgage securitizations, while also pursuing and defending civil suits—some of which involve attempts to press or pause collection or litigation—but the materials do not document a court filing explicitly labeled as "calling in criminals’ loans" [1] [4] [3].
1. What the phrase likely means, and why reporting doesn’t map cleanly onto it
The user’s phrase appears to conflate two distinct actions—criminal prosecution of individuals and a bank’s civil litigation to accelerate or foreclose on loans—yet the provided sources document regulatory civil actions against Deutsche Bank and lawsuits involving its lending activities rather than a criminal-case-driven court filing to "call in" loans; the Department of Justice settlement described criminal exposure for individuals as unresolved while the bank agreed to civil relief and cooperation [1], and other sources catalog civil suits and shareholder claims rather than a discrete creditor motion to call in loans from alleged criminals [4] [2].
2. What the DOJ and other federal actions actually show about loan treatment
The Justice Department’s 2025 RMBS settlement required Deutsche Bank to pay and provide consumer relief including loan modifications, forgiveness and forbearance to harmed homeowners, which is the opposite of a blanket “calling in” of loans and instead constitutes mandated relief and remediation for bad origination and securitization practices [1]. The DOJ also filed a civil mortgage fraud complaint against MortgageIT Inc., a Deutsche Bank subsidiary, seeking damages under the False Claims Act for false certifications—again a federal civil enforcement posture aimed at penalties and remediation rather than a creditor’s unilateral acceleration of loans to particular borrowers labeled “criminals” [4].
3. Civil litigation and creditor actions in the docketed cases cited
Deutsche Bank is actively involved in many civil cases—both as plaintiff and defendant—including foreclosure-related class actions, shareholder suits tied to opaque dealings with high‑risk clients, and suits against individual debtors; for example, reporting notes foreclosure class-action litigation and numerous lawsuits pending against the bank [5] [6]. The bank has also filed or defended lawsuits abroad and in U.S. courts—one recent example being litigation tied to billionaire Alexander Vik that the bank paused after a Connecticut judge’s order, illustrating active creditor litigation but not an identifiable motion framed as calling in loans from "criminals" [3].
4. High-profile client controversies do not equate to an institutional “call-in” campaign
Public controversies—Jeffrey Epstein, Russian oligarchs, and high-profile borrowers such as former President Trump—have led to internal and external scrutiny, settlements with shareholders and congressional inquiries, and large government settlements, but the evidence in the supplied reporting shows settlements and regulatory fallout rather than a court filing by Deutsche Bank to accelerate or demand repayment from a class of clients labeled criminal [7] [8] [2]. Some suits allege the bank facilitated or failed to spot wrongdoing; others involve the bank seeking redress or defending itself, yet none of these items in the set says the bank has filed a blanket “call-in” motion against loans to criminals.
5. Alternative explanations, possible agendas, and reporting limits
Advocates or critics may conflate separate legal steps—criminal referrals, civil suits, foreclosure filings, and settlement remedies—into a narrative that a bank has "called in criminals' loans," either to cast the bank as enforcer or as punitive; the materials show robust enforcement and litigation activity involving Deutsche Bank but are silent on a discrete filing matching the user’s phrasing, and the available corpus does not include exhaustive docket searches or criminal indictments that would be necessary to confirm or refute all possible lender-initiated accelerations [1] [4] [6]. Given the limitations of the supplied sources, it is not possible to assert categorically that no such filing exists in other court records or news outlets not included here.
6. Bottom line
The provided reporting documents major DOJ settlements, consumer relief tied to mortgage misconduct, multiple civil suits both brought by and against Deutsche Bank, and pauses or defenses in creditor litigation, but it does not document a specific court filing by Deutsche Bank described as “filing with the courts to call in the criminals’ loans”; therefore, the claim is not supported by the supplied sources and would require targeted docket searches or direct court filings to confirm [1] [4] [3].