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Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe ‘Outraged’
Submitted by IWB, on October 8th, 2016
Iceland has found nine top bankers guilty and sentenced them to decades in jail for crimes related to the 2008 economic crash.
On Thursday Iceland’s Supreme Court returned a guilty verdict for all nine defendants in the Kaupthing market manipulation case, after a long running court trial which began in April last year.
Kaupthing was a big international bank headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. It expanded internationally for years, but collapsed in 2008 under huge debts, crippling the small nation’s economy.
By demanding that bankers be subject to the same laws as the rest of society, Iceland opted for a very different strategy in the wake of the financial crisis to rest of Europe and the US, where banks were fined nominal amounts, and directors and chief executives escaped punishment altogether.
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