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Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson Resigns After Release of ‘Panama Papers’
Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson Resigns After Release of ‘Panama Papers’
Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson leaves the president’s residence on Tuesday, when he resigned in the face of public outrage over his links to an offshore company. Photo: birgir por hardarson/European Pressphoto Agency
By
Charles Duxbury,
David Gauthier-Villars and
Matthias Verbergt
Updated April 5, 2016 1:57 p.m. ET
Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned Tuesday, becoming the first major casualty of renewed global scrutiny into offshore accounts sparked by millions of documents allegedly leaked from a Panamanian law firm.
Mr. Gunnlaugsson is leaving office amid growing popular uproar in his small island country over him not disclosing links to an offshore company in a Caribbean tax haven.
After a meeting with Mr. Gunnlaugsson and other members of the ruling Progress Party, Agriculture Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson told Iceland television he was considering taking over as prime minister.
After his name appeared in some of the leaked Panamanian documents, Mr. Gunnlaugsson said he shared ownership of a holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands with his partner until 2009, when he sold her his interest for the symbolic sum of one dollar. Mr. Gunnlaugsson has denied any wrongdoing, saying holdings in the company, known as Wintris, were duly reported to Iceland’s tax authorities.
People gather during a protest on in front of Iceland’s parliament in Reykjavik on Monday night, calling for the resignation of Mr. Gunnlaugson’s resignation. Photo: birgir por hardarson/European Pressphoto Agency
Icelanders expressed outrage over the news that Mr. Gunnlaugsson had links to an offshore company and hadn’t made the investment public, either when he became a lawmaker in 2009 or when he became prime minister in 2013.
Thousands of protesters outside parliament on Monday night banged drums and chanted that Mr. Gunnlaugsson should quit.
“He told us to believe in Iceland,” Sigmundur Halldorsson, a 49-year-old Reykjavik-born web developer, said by telephone. “But at the same time he decided Iceland was not a very good place to keep his money.”
The Panamanian documents were first leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which shared it with other media outlets that published findings on Sunday night on the alleged offshore holdings of a range of business and public figures across the globe.
The revelations come at a delicate time for Iceland, where Mr. Gunnlaugsson’s government was plotting a course toward ending financial restrictions introduced after the 2008 collapse of the nation’s three main banks.
The fall of the banks hit the average Icelander hard as inflation soared to 18% annually and the cost of widely held inflation-linked mortgages rose; people spent less, economic growth stalled, and many jobs disappeared. Capital controls had to be imposed to steady the currency by restricting what funds could exit and leave the country.
The leaked documents also showed that Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson and Interior Minister Olof Nordal also had connections to offshore companies.
A spokesman for Mr. Benediktsson confirmed he owned a third of a Seychelles-based company with two other investors set up to invest in a property deal in Dubai, which he said fell through in 2008.
A spokeswoman for Interior Minister Olof Nordal said she had no immediate comment.
“Living conditions have become much harder in Iceland,” said Eva Joly, a French-Norwegian member of the European Parliament. “The idea that the prime minister, the finance minister and the interior minister didn’t play by the rules is unbearable.”
A former investigative magistrate in France, Ms. Joly advised Iceland’s judicial authorities from 2008 to 2011 on how to prosecute executives at the country’s failed banks. Several high-profile bankers have been convicted as the result of protracted investigations that uncovered widespread market manipulation.
Ms. Joly said it was shocking to hear Mr. Gunnlaugsson had set up an offshore company.
“There is a negative preconception because he would need very good reasons to explain why he couldn’t set up a company elsewhere than in a tax haven,” Ms. Joly said.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/icelands-prime-minister-sigmundur-david-gunnlaugsson-resigns-1459874528
Leader is first major casualty of scrutiny into offshore accounts sparked by release of millions of documents from Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca
Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson leaves the president’s residence on Tuesday, when he resigned in the face of public outrage over his links to an offshore company. Photo: birgir por hardarson/European Pressphoto Agency
By
Charles Duxbury,
David Gauthier-Villars and
Matthias Verbergt
Updated April 5, 2016 1:57 p.m. ET
Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned Tuesday, becoming the first major casualty of renewed global scrutiny into offshore accounts sparked by millions of documents allegedly leaked from a Panamanian law firm.
Mr. Gunnlaugsson is leaving office amid growing popular uproar in his small island country over him not disclosing links to an offshore company in a Caribbean tax haven.
After a meeting with Mr. Gunnlaugsson and other members of the ruling Progress Party, Agriculture Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson told Iceland television he was considering taking over as prime minister.
After his name appeared in some of the leaked Panamanian documents, Mr. Gunnlaugsson said he shared ownership of a holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands with his partner until 2009, when he sold her his interest for the symbolic sum of one dollar. Mr. Gunnlaugsson has denied any wrongdoing, saying holdings in the company, known as Wintris, were duly reported to Iceland’s tax authorities.
People gather during a protest on in front of Iceland’s parliament in Reykjavik on Monday night, calling for the resignation of Mr. Gunnlaugson’s resignation. Photo: birgir por hardarson/European Pressphoto Agency
Icelanders expressed outrage over the news that Mr. Gunnlaugsson had links to an offshore company and hadn’t made the investment public, either when he became a lawmaker in 2009 or when he became prime minister in 2013.
Thousands of protesters outside parliament on Monday night banged drums and chanted that Mr. Gunnlaugsson should quit.
“He told us to believe in Iceland,” Sigmundur Halldorsson, a 49-year-old Reykjavik-born web developer, said by telephone. “But at the same time he decided Iceland was not a very good place to keep his money.”
The Panamanian documents were first leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which shared it with other media outlets that published findings on Sunday night on the alleged offshore holdings of a range of business and public figures across the globe.
The revelations come at a delicate time for Iceland, where Mr. Gunnlaugsson’s government was plotting a course toward ending financial restrictions introduced after the 2008 collapse of the nation’s three main banks.
The fall of the banks hit the average Icelander hard as inflation soared to 18% annually and the cost of widely held inflation-linked mortgages rose; people spent less, economic growth stalled, and many jobs disappeared. Capital controls had to be imposed to steady the currency by restricting what funds could exit and leave the country.
The leaked documents also showed that Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson and Interior Minister Olof Nordal also had connections to offshore companies.
A spokesman for Mr. Benediktsson confirmed he owned a third of a Seychelles-based company with two other investors set up to invest in a property deal in Dubai, which he said fell through in 2008.
A spokeswoman for Interior Minister Olof Nordal said she had no immediate comment.
“Living conditions have become much harder in Iceland,” said Eva Joly, a French-Norwegian member of the European Parliament. “The idea that the prime minister, the finance minister and the interior minister didn’t play by the rules is unbearable.”
A former investigative magistrate in France, Ms. Joly advised Iceland’s judicial authorities from 2008 to 2011 on how to prosecute executives at the country’s failed banks. Several high-profile bankers have been convicted as the result of protracted investigations that uncovered widespread market manipulation.
Ms. Joly said it was shocking to hear Mr. Gunnlaugsson had set up an offshore company.
“There is a negative preconception because he would need very good reasons to explain why he couldn’t set up a company elsewhere than in a tax haven,” Ms. Joly said.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/icelands-prime-minister-sigmundur-david-gunnlaugsson-resigns-1459874528
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Interesting isn't it that Iceland was the first to jail the bankers and now they are some of the first to be exposed? hmmm....
How about "exposing" Americans?? Surely they are included in this offshore issue!
Will we take to the streets and demand removal like we did in the 60's? Probably not.. to busy soaking in the wifi on fat asses in front of the teLIEvision.
Time for an rEVOLUTION!! Past time actually...
How about "exposing" Americans?? Surely they are included in this offshore issue!
Will we take to the streets and demand removal like we did in the 60's? Probably not.. to busy soaking in the wifi on fat asses in front of the teLIEvision.
Time for an rEVOLUTION!! Past time actually...
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