The Norwegian-French judge Eva Joly is famous for her fraud investigation skills and has been hired by Iceland to advise its bank crash investigators and help solve the mysteries surrounding the country’s economic downfall.

On Saturday she took a sidestep from her official role by writing an opinion piece for several major European newspapers lambasting Europe’s treatment of Iceland over recent months. Read the full story

It has emerged that the son of Iceland’s Attorney General is one of two CEOs at Exista, which was one of the major stakeholders in Kaupthing Bank. And all cases sent from Iceland’s special banking collapse investigation committee for prosecution have to go through the Attorney General. Read the full story

The announcement of the involvement of Eva Joly being hired as a special consultant to the Icelandic government and the special prosecutor’s team was introduced at a press meeting held at the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. Joly said that she would work as an advisor to the special prosecutor and that she would help get information from abroad. Read the full story

The Icelandic government this week decided to increase the number of staff working on the investigating committee into the banking crisis, Frettabladid reports.

Those working for the chief investigator Olafur Thor Hauksson will increase to 20 from the current nine. Read the full story

The Government of Iceland has appointed Norwegian-French Magistrate Eva Joly as a special adviser on the investigation of cases linked to the country’s economic collapse. Read the full story