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Reykjavík County Court hands out severe prison sentences to four bankers
Posted 27/06/2014 - 14:47 by anrigaut
“I’m just doing it for you guys,” Birkir Kristinsson was caught on tape saying to one of his fellow bankers at Glitnir. Kristinsson, the brother of Magnús Kristinsson – owner of fishing industries in the Vestman islands and a big borrower in the Icelandic banks – has been sentenced to five years in prison together with three Glitnir colleague two of whom also got the same prison sentence. The fourth was sentenced to four years in prison. Kristinsson has appealed and so will the three others most likely do. ...
Holding bankers to account – Iceland leads the way
Posted 19/12/2013 - 15:18 by anrigaut
Last week, over 5 years after the collapse of the Icelandic banks, an Icelandic court convicted 3 top Kaupthing bankers and the bank’s second largest shareholder to prison sentences of up to 5 1/2 yea
The Capo di Tutti Capi returns!
Posted 16/12/2013 - 17:54 by anrigaut
Bob Diamond, one of the most controversial bankers to emerge from the financial crisis, but the man ousted as boss of Barclays after a direct intervention by the Bank of England, is making a dramatic return to the City with the launch of a new Africa banking business. ...
With comment by Tony Shearer, ex CEO of Singer & Friedlander
The wages of sin ... Bankers on the fiddle
Posted 01/07/2012 - 08:50 by anrigaut
EXCLUSIVE BY IAN FRASER
Executives and former executives of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group are at risk of criminal action, including possible extradition to the United States, in the wake of allegations of interest-rate rigging, according to senior legal experts.
And the banks face even larger fines than Barclays' £290 million penalty over its involvement in the alleged cartel of banks that conspired to rig inter-bank interest rates.
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See also unedited version on Ian Fraser's blog: http://www.ianfraser.org/the-wages-of-sin-bankers-on-the-fiddle/
"Wunch of Bankers" up on MySpace
Posted 15/08/2009 - 12:37 by Anonymous
There's now a version of the new song up on the Manx Alchemy MySpace page if anyone cares to have a listen...
www.MySpace.com/ManxAlchemy
Wunch of Bankers.. New song
Posted 14/08/2009 - 08:14 by Anonymous
Bit rough and ready.. but there's a version up on MySpace now at www.MySpace.com/ManxAlchemy
Wunch of Bankers!
I worked for years to save enough to live the way I please
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