Der isländische Rechtsanwalt Baldvin Björn Haraldsson hat im Auftrag von 25 ausländischen Investoren, darunter neun deutschen Banken, Klage gegen die Zentralbank von Island wegen der Verstaatlichung der Sparkasse SPRON im März 2009 erhoben.
Der Parlamentsabgeordnete Thráinn Bertelsson ist aus seiner Partei, der Bürgerbewegung, ausgetreten und wird als unabhängiger Abgeordneter im Althing weiterarbeiten.
Icelandic residents counted 319,246 on July 1 this year—a decrease of 109 people from the same time last year, according to Statistics Iceland. The number of Icelandic inhabitants hasn’t dropped between years since 1889, for 120 years.
According to the report Northern Lights on PISA 2006, presented at a conference at Grand Hótel in Reykjavík which ended yesterday, the performance of Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian students is below the average of OECD states.
A man was sentenced to custody until September 1 yesterday, suspected of having murdered another man in a room of a house in the Hraun district in Hafnarfjördur on Monday. The suspect has a history of violence with the police. Both men were aged around 30.
The board of Reykjavík Energy (OR) has decided to accept an offer from Canadian company Magma Energy in its share in Sudurnes energy company HS Orka after looking into offers from a number of other interested parties.
Prime Minister of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir said after a cabinet meeting yesterday that she hopes the Althingi parliament will complete its discussions of the government’s Icesave bill and the Economic and Tax Committee’s disclaimers by the end of this week.
Icelandic lawyer Baldvin Björn Haraldsson has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Iceland on behalf of 25 foreign investment companies due to the takeover of SPRON savings bank. A series of lawsuits against Icelandic authorities is expected.
Die Bank Kaupthing hat den Antrag von Björgólfur Gudmundsson, dem früheren Vorsitzenden von Landsbanki, und seinem Sohn Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, zurückgewiesen, die Bank solle die Hälfte ihrer 5,9 Milliarden Kreditschulden abzuschreiben. Der Vater und Sohn wurden als Islands „erste und zweite Milliardäre“ bekannt.
