Business Insider | July 12 2012 | Thanks, Minty
If you were involved in Icelandic high finance in the runup to the recession, you might want to start watching your back.
That’s because the government has appointed a white collar crime bounty hunter who wants to haul your behind in (alive, to be sure).
LeMonde reporter Charlotte Chabas has a profile of Ólafur Þór Hauksson, a former local police lieutenant whom the Iceland government appointed to track down individuals likely to have helped sink the country’s banking sector during the credit crunch.
Hauksson’s job description, according to PressEurop’s translation of the piece:
“On one hand, we have to investigate all suspicion of fraud and offences committed before 2009, on the other hand, we bring the lawsuits against the suspects to court ourselves,” Hauksson explains. This is a ‘totally new’ method which allows the investigators to “follow the case” and the judicial system to “know the cases like the back of their hand”. This is indispensable in order “to compete with the well-prepared defence attorneys”.
Hauksson oversees a posse of 100 researchers to help track down outlaws. He’s netted some major convictions since starting in 2009, including the former chief of staff of the country’s finance minister on insider trading charges. Many others await their day in court, Chabas writes.
And he will track you down even if you’ve fled abroad.
“Searches continue and the team pursues its investigations abroad in the foreign subsidiaries of the Icelandic banks and includes questioning foreigners,” Chabas writes. ” ‘We enjoy full international cooperation,’ stresses Olafur Hauksson.”
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I wish the Icelandic people full success. After all, clear and rational thinking should be rewarded. Bankers – your ticket is about to be punched. Dimon to Dimonds are all at risk. You reap what you sow.
Thanks for commenting, Jeff. Iceland is an example to the world. Blessings. ~G
Goooooooooooo Iceland!!! Atleast the people of ICELAND has balls. Too bad Americans are still asleep.
I wonder……….. I wonder what Americans, my brothers and sisters…… The world, my BROTHERS AND SISTERS will do when they finally wake up?????????? I wonder what the world would look like when JUSTICE finds it’s place back in this world of HIGH FINANCE…… I wonder what would happen if just ONE BANKSTER that has committed a straight up crime against the people of this beautiful America was to go to jail (other than uncle Bernieeeeee and his lil bro)…….. I wonder…………. Jesus Christ died on a cross and was rejected by the people because they did not know him. But Father God did. He knew him very well……….. I wonder what this world would be like if EVERYONE experienced Jesus’s type of love for their family, friends, the poor, the WORLD………..???????????? Boy do I wonder………. Praise the Lord that his mercy, his grace, his beauty, his majesty, his LOVE is enough…………….. Just a thought………..
Hi Unreal, thank you for posting. Please assist me by limiting your comments to the topic at hand. I am pleased that you have such deep spiritual beliefs rooted in the message of the Christ. I have deleted some of your messages that were more aimed at sharing your beliefs about Jesus than actually commenting on the post. Please keep your comments on topic, at least to the degree you have done so in this comment. Thank you. Blessings, ~G