The UNITED states asks for information about Danske Bank

u.s. authorities have contacted the banks Nordea and SEB and asked for more information in the case of money laundering in Danske Bank.

The writing finansmediet Bloomberg, on the basis of an anonymous source.

According to the media is the finansmyndighederne in New York, which has been addressed to the two banks, among other things, to get more information about their transactions with Danish Bank.

What the request exactly goes on is unknown. But it is according to the media about suspicions of money laundering for a large billion-through Danske Bank's branch in Estonia.

According to Danske Bank's own survey, there were suspicious transactions through the Estonian branch for 1,500 billion Danish kroner.

The two banks must also disclose more about their cooperation with the law firm of Mossack Fonseca.

the Company was known in connection with the leak of the so-called Panama-papers. Here it was revealed, where tax evasion happened through selskabskonstruktioner in Panama.

Documents leaked originated from Mossack Fonseca, and the forward, to Nordea cooperated with the company.

the Story from Bloomberg comes the day after the Financial Times could tell that finansmyndighederne in New York contacted the Swedish Swedbank in February.

According to the Financial Times went the contact also in the Danske Bank case, and they leaked the Panama papers.

Finansmyndighederne in New York did not wish to comment on the Bloombergs article.

Nor Nordea or SEB is returned to the media's inquiries.