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Sigrún Davidsdóttir

On mafia involvement in the energy sector

September 5, 2010

Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, one of Iceland’s best investigative reporters [she blogs in English here] recently broadcast a fascinating report on increased mafia investments in the energy sector, on current affairs radio programme Spegillinn, which airs on RÚV, weekdays at 18.30. Sigrún bases her information on a report by Europol on the mafia’s involvement in the energy [...]

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Me no understand, me from Æsland

July 10, 2010

Back in May, I wrote a post describing how the resolution committee of Glitnir bank had initiated court proceedings against Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, the bank’s former owner, and a handful of his associates. The legal claim is very blunt and to the point, and outright accuses JÁJ and his associates of strategically and systematically robbing [...]

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The huge significance of the foreign currency loan ruling

June 21, 2010

As we reported a few days ago, the Icelandic Supreme Court passed a ruling last week that loans indexed to foreign currencies are illegal in Iceland. For anyone unfamiliar with the concept, Sigrún Davíðsdóttir explains over on her blog [also exposing the further incompetence of the Icelandic bankers, as if we didn't have overkill on [...]

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Good news!

March 6, 2010

Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, RÚV’s London correspondent, who is definitely one of the best reporters on the Icelandic collapse in any language, has started a blog — in ENGLISH! Here is Sigrún commenting on the Icesave referendum on Al-Jazeera yesterday: [Her bit starts at around 8.30 minutes] Sigrún’s blog is here.

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When good people become dangerous people

February 4, 2010

One of the best programmes in Iceland today is the current affairs programme Spegillinn [the mirror], broadcast on RÚV radio 1 after the evening news. And one of the very best reporters on Spegillinn is Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, RÚV’s London correspondent, who not only unearths the most amazing facts and figures and sides of the kreppa, [...]

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Glitnir’s Kiddiegate Affair

November 4, 2009

A few off-topic comments were written beneath the last post referring to the loans that Glitnir [bank] made to children. Most commenters expressed a mixture of outrage and indignation that a bank would make loans to minors and – not least – that the children’s parents would have applied for those loans on behalf of [...]

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