STOCKHOLM, July 5 (Reuters) - Danish police will commence court proceedings against Nordea in an earlier disclosed anti-money laundering matter, the Finland-based bank said on Friday.

"Based on Nordea's interpretation of Danish law, Nordea does not agree with the content of the charges nor the legal assessment," the bank said in a statement.

Danish police's Special Crime Unit (NSK) said in a separate statement it claims Nordea violated Denmark's anti-money laundering act between 2012-2015.

"In NSK's opinion this happened, among other things, by Nordea not investigating transactions by the bank's Russian customers sufficiently, and by Nordea disregarding warnings about transactions to currency exchange offices in Copenhagen," NSK said.

NSK said the case covers matters that include transactions worth just over 26 billion crowns ($3.77 billion).

($1 = 6.8925 Danish crowns) (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Essi Lehto)