By Jann Bettinga, Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Data on Swiss bank account holders who may have evaded German taxes come from a Geneva-based private-banking unit of HSBC Holdings Plc, the Financial Times Deutschland reported, without saying where it got the information.

German authorities have been offered the data on about 1,300 German customers for 2.5 million euros ($3.47 million), the newspaper said.

Steffen Poerner, a spokesman for HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, the Dusseldorf, Germany-based bank controlled by HSBC, said he couldn’t immediately comment on the report. A spokesman for HSBC in Geneva declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg.

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