Three cases involving Icelandic businessman and former Baugur Group boss Jon Asgeir Johannesson will go before Icelandic district courts today. Read the full story
Posted on 29 March 2011.
Three cases involving Icelandic businessman and former Baugur Group boss Jon Asgeir Johannesson will go before Icelandic district courts today. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 July 2010.
In the asset freezing case brought by Glitnir Bank against Jon Asgeir Johannesson, it was not known who had GBP 202 million in British bank accounts connected to Johannesson’s UK business. He now intends to bring charges against the head of Glitnir’s resolution committee for saying that he had the money himself. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 July 2010.
Icelandic businessman Jon Asgeir Johannesson has paid the banrupt estate of Glitnir Bank USD 15 million, or around ISK 2 billion. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 July 2010.
Icelandic businessman Jon Asgeir Johannesson paid off his USD 10 million mortgage a few weeks ago. The mortgage on his luxury New York apartment was paid by bank transfer from his personal Royal Bank of Canada account. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 July 2010.
The domestic assets of Icelandic tycoon Jon Asgeir Johannesson are still frozen, despite the Director of Customs having retracted an asset freezing request. The Reykjavik District Commissioner froze the assets upon request from the Glitnir Bank resolution committee. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 May 2010.
The deadline for former Baugur boss, Jon Asgeir Johannesson to submit a comprehensive list of all his assets to the Glitnir Bank resolution committee has been extended to tomorrow. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 May 2010.
Glitnir Bank’s dissolution committee members today described what they called the robbery from within of the bank by Jon Asgeir Johannesson and his “clique”. Seven have already been served by a New York court and more will likely follow.
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Posted on 19 April 2010.
Jon Asgeir Johannesson and his family owed the Icelandic banks around ISK 300 billion (USD 2.3 billion at today’s rate). His parents owed ISK 60 billion each. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 April 2010.
A tax fraud case brought against Jon Asgeir Johannesson, Tryggvi Jonsson, Kristin Johannesdottir, Baugur Group and the Gaumur investment company has hit a snag with the defendants claiming a sort of ‘double jeopardy’. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 March 2010.
Jon Asgeir Johannesson, the former boss of now-bankrupt Baugur Group is preparing to open a three-store chain of low cost supermarkets in London. Read the full story
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