Yesterday and today are the final days of the Landsdómur trial against former Icelandic PM Geir H. Haarde. The prosecution summed up yesterday and the defence is doing so today.
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Summing up at former Iceland PM negligence trial
Posted on 16 March 2012.
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Brazilian prosecutors call for tough sentences in triple Finnish murders
Posted on 16 March 2012.
Two men accused of killing three Finns in Brazil last year are about to stand trial for the murders.
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Former Iceland PM trial splits nation
Posted on 14 March 2012.
Slightly more people in Iceland were happy to see their former prime minister go on trial for negligence over the banking crash than were unhappy, new survey results reveal.
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Former Icelandic PM’s trial: Day Six
Posted on 13 March 2012.
Yesterday was the sixth and penultimate day of witness testimony at the court case against former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde. Six people testified at the Cuture House in Reykjavík and one testified by telephone from Canada. Today is the final day of witnesses.
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Iceland prime minister trial update
Posted on 10 March 2012.
11 witnesses gave testimony to the Landsdómur trial of former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde yesterday – day five. They included the current Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Update from former Iceland PM trial
Posted on 07 March 2012.
A second former governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, Ingimundur Friðriksson, took the witness stand this morning at the Culture House in Reykjavík – where the trial of former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde is taking place.
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Trial of former Iceland PM takes evidence from ex commerce minister
Posted on 06 March 2012.
“The red line through all that year was that bankers feared that one little article in a British paper could have caused a bank to fall,” former Icelandic commerce minister Björgvin G. Sigurðsson told the Landsdómur court case against Geir H. Haarde this morning.
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Geir Haarde questioning finished, more witnesses called today
Posted on 06 March 2012.
Questioning of former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde in the court case against him has come to an end. The court reconvened at 10.00 this morning, and testimony will be taken from several other key persons today.
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