Dear Mr. Lane,

ICIJ Dear Mr. Lane, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Washington D.C. August 17, 2020 I am the project manager and editor of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a nonprofit news organization based in Washington, DC. You can read our work here: www.icii.org I am writing because ICIJ in collaboration with other media outlets, including BuzzFeed News, NBC News and others are working on an investigation about bank compliance and anti-money-laundering systems around the world. We are examining numerous transactions with involvement of various banks, companies and people globally. Our investigation is based on thousands of suspicious activity reports. These reports were generated by various banks and submitted to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. We understand that information contained in suspicious activity reports is not necessarily evidence of wrongdoing or criminality. We have close