Nordea mentioned 10,000 times in Panama leak – Swedish Dagbladet

Nordea is one of the banks present in Panama documents. Photo: Lars Pehrson

A total of 11.5 million documents reveal how the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama has helped rich people hiding money by creating letterbox in tax havens. Nordea will have worked with the law firm that helped people around the world to escape the tax.

The revelation is seen as one of history’s biggest leaks in which journalists from several countries worked together for a long time. And that SVT could first report on Nordea’s involvement.

A total of 400-500 Swedish people and companies in the leaked documents, reports Aftonbladet after an interview with SVT reporter Joachim Dyfvermark.

– It’s everything from self-employed to business absolute peaks. In some cases it may be about legal tax avoidance. But there are very few reasons to have a bogus offshore if you do not want to engage in tax avoidance and money laundering, says Joachim Dyfvermark.

According to SVT’s Nordea one of the most active banks among those appearing in the documents.

– Overall, we expect that Nordea is or has been active intermediary between 300 and 400 letterbox. Nordea will in eleventh place of all the approximately 14 000 banks in the database, said Dyfvermark.

There are other Swedish banks in Panama The documents also. But none comes close to Nordea’s 10,902 hits.

– SEB distinguish themselves in the other direction, there are 47 hits. We do not see that they are no active mediator of offshore companies. Handelsbanken has 576 hits, Swedbank 764 hits, Carnegie 162 hits, Banque Invik 216 hits and Banque Öhman 127 hits, says Joachim Dyfvermark.

Nordea claim that one since 2009 has cleared up in the system and changed the business to access just this kind of troubles. But Panama The documents show a different picture. Nordea will continue to pursue the same activity even in later years.

The National Tax and Financial Supervisory reviewing whether the arrangement violates the law or not.

Fact: Panama documents

• A total of 11.5 million leaked internal document from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca has been reviewed by media all over the world.

• the leak came first German Süddeutsche Zeitung to the part, which is then shared documents with ICIJ, an international organization for investigative journalists. From there, then over than 100 media organizations worldwide working with the material in over a year.

• For Sweden, SVT and Mission examination taken note of the leak.

• The leaked documents reveals how Mossack Fonseca de facto business is to create letterbox in tax havens, which are used to hide large sums of money. The contact between customers and Mossack Fonseca managed by banks, often large and international ones.

• Among those who used the Mossack Fonseca services are several current and former politicians, sports figures, movie stars, and notorious criminals.

• the Agency’s activities can be linked to several illegal activities such as money laundering, bribery and tax evasion.

• In a statement writes Mossack Fonseca to follow the law, and never have been convicted of crimes. The firm claims to have no responsibility for what their clients use brevlådeföretagen to.

Source: SVT

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