Special Investigator’s Office

How to move money, Icelandic mogul-style

January 4, 2010

Here’s one of those delightful little kreppa stories we just can’t get enough of. Icelandic investor Jón Þorsteinn Jónsson, who holds the legal status of a defendant in the investigation into the bank collapse, was stopped at Keflavík airport on 22 December with a bag full of money. He was en route to the UK [...]

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Doddsson’s runaway locomotive

October 18, 2009

There is something strangely fascinating about the slow-motion train wreck that is Morgunblaðið, now that Davíð Oddsson has taken over as its editor in chief. First, a whole lot of people cancelled their subscription to the paper following the announcement that Doddsson had been hired. The paper has declined to say just how many people [...]

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