FT: DFS utredning omfattar flera ärenden
Den utredning som den amerikanska finansmyndigheten DFS inlett gällande Swedbank omfattar sju olika ärenden, rapporterar Financial Times och hänvisar till ett brev som DFS skickat till Swedbank.
Enligt FT gäller ärendena Swedbanks eventuella roll i flera andra penningtvättsskandaler. Utöver Mossack Fonseca nämns bland annat Danske Bank, lettiska ABLV, cypriotiska FBME och litauiska Ukio.
Financial Times konstaterar att brevet är det första konkreta tecknet på intresse från en amerikansk myndighet gällande den penningtvättshärva som blev känd för den breda allmänheten under förra månaden, skriver Nyhetsbyrån Direkt.
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New York State Department of Financial Services
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The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS or NYSDFS) is the department of the New York state government responsible for regulating financial services and products, including those subject to the New York insurance, banking and financial services laws.
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Mossack Fonseca
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Mossack Fonseca & Co. (Spanish pronunciation: [mos.ˈsak̚k fõn.ˈse.ka] was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider,. It was, at one time, the world's fourth largest provider of offshore financial services. From its 1977 foundation until the April 2016 publication of the Panama Papers it remained mostly obscure, even though it sat at the heart of the global offshore industry, and acted for about 300,000 companies. More than half are registered in British tax havens – as well as in the UK. The firm received worldwide media attention in April 2016, when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published information about its clients' financial dealings in the Panama Papers articles, following the release of an enormous cache of its documents from between 1970 and 2015 leaked to the news media. Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who led the disclosure efforts, was subsequently murdered by a car bomb on October 16, 2017.On March 14, 2018, the law firm announced that it was shutting down, because of the economic and reputational damage inflicted by the disclosure of its role in global tax evasion by the Panama Papers.
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