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Icelands jailed bankers a model for dealing with financial terrorists


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2013 Dec 22, 9:36am   877 views  4 comments

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http://rt.com/op-edge/iceland-bank-sentence-model-246/

By jailing four top officers of Iceland's failed Kaupthing Bank, the country showed the world the right way to deal with the people largely responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, said Charlie McGrath, founder of news website, Wide Awake News. The US and other nations must take it as a model for the next time the too-big- to-fail corporations screw things up and ask for a bailout with taxpayers money, he added.

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1   Ceffer   2013 Dec 22, 2:18pm  

They restricted them to a single cigar, fifth of hooch and hooker a day until their sentences were done.

2   fedwatcher   2013 Dec 23, 3:55pm  

There are thousands more who should be jailed. We could save a lot in the costs of imprisonment by just putting all the "C-Levels" in jail and fining the rest to cover the imprisonment costs of the "C-Levels".

3   zzyzzx   2015 Jun 10, 11:59am  

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8751267/iceland-capital-controls

For starters, rather than scrambling to mobilize public resources to make sure banks didn't default on their various obligations, Iceland let the banks go bust. Executives of the country's most important bank were prosecuted as criminals.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102422785

Iceland convicts bad bankers and says other nations can act

Iceland's Supreme Court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country's special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers.

Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, Kaupthing's former chief executive, former chairman Sigurdur Einarsson, former CEO of Kaupthing Luxembourg Magnus Gudmundsson, and Olafur Olafsson, the bank's second largest shareholder at the time, were all sentenced on Thursday to between four and five and a half years.

The verdict is the heaviest for financial fraud in Iceland's history, local media said. Kaupthing collapsed under heavy debts after the 2008 financial crisis and the four former executives now live abroad. Though they sometimes returned to Iceland to collaborate with the court investigation, none were present on Thursday.

Iceland's government appointed a special prosecutor to investigate its bankers after the world's financial systems were rocked by the discovery of huge debts and widespread poor corporate governance. He said Thursday's ruling was a signal to countries slow to pursue similar cases that no individual was too big to be prosecuted.

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