The British businessman Robert Tchenguiz is considering suing the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) following his arrest in the investigation into the collapse of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank. Read the full story
Posted on 15 March 2011.
The British businessman Robert Tchenguiz is considering suing the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) following his arrest in the investigation into the collapse of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 March 2011.
The seven people arrested in London yesterday in the Serious Fraud Office investigation into the collapse of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank, have all been released on bail. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 March 2011.
Sigurdur Einarsson, former chairman of Kaupthing Bank, and Robert Tchenguiz, who was the now-defunct bank’s biggest customer, were both arrested this morning in London in a joint operation by the Serious Fraud Office and Iceland’s Special Prosecutor into the banking crash. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 November 2010.
A ruling handed down yesterday by the Reykjavik District Court puts Kaupthing Bank into formal break-up proceedings. Under Icelandic law, moratoria on payments expire when break-up proceedings commence. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 September 2010.
Agust Gudmundsson, commonly associated with the companies Bakkavor and Exista, has reached a settlement, along with his wife, with creditors over a lawsuit brought against them at the High Court in London. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 September 2010.
Europol, the pan-European police network, has started an investigation into failed Icelandic bank, Kaupthing and financial crimes police in the UK are also still working on their own investigation into the bank. Read the full story
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Posted on 25 September 2010.
Former director of Kaupthing Bank, Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, has sent a letter to the Icelandic Prime Minister complaining about the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 September 2010.
19 companies and the Banque Havilland bank have spoken out against the handing over of sensitive information from the Luxembourg-based bank to Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking collapse. The office of Olafur Thor Hauksson wants the information in connection with its investigation into Kaupthing. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 August 2010.
Sigurdur Einarsson, the former head of the board at Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank, is today being interviewed by the Special Prosecutor into the banking crisis. He is at the prosecutor’s Reykjavik office along with his lawyer, Gestur Jonsson. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 June 2010.
The biggest single claimant on the estate of Glitnir Bank is Burlington Loan Management from Ireland. The company is also among the biggest claimants at Kaupthing and is seeking roughly ISK 220 billion (USD 1.7 billion). Read the full story
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