About 80 former and current employees of Deutsche Bank AG are suspects in an investigation by German prosecutors into an alleged tax fraud, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A growing number of Deutsche Bank employees have been ensnared in the years-long probe, including investment bank head Garth Ritchie, as well as ex-chief executive officer Josef Ackermann and former co-CEO Anshu Jain. Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday that about 70 current and former employees at Deutsche Bank are facing scrutiny.

Prosecutors have been conducting a criminal probe into some of the biggest names in European and U.S. finance, looking at the roles banks, law firms and others played in so-called cum-ex trades. The strategy enabled both sides of a short sale to claim a refund of a dividend tax that was only paid once, costing taxpayers at least 10 billion euros, according to lawmakers.

The deals being reviewed by Cologne prosecutors took place approximately between 2007 and 2012, overlapping the period when Jain was responsible for the investment-banking arm. Ritchie now heads the division, which has been at the center of many of the lender’s woes.

“I was not personally involved in any cum-ex activity,” Ritchie said in a statement released by the bank on Tuesday. “I am very confident that the investigation will show no personal wrongdoing by me.”

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