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Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde on Trial over Charges of Negligence in the 2008 Financial Crisis

March 10, 2012
Business & Finance
Corruption
Europe
Gordon Brown
Iceland
Iceland bankruptcy
Iceland financial crisis
IceSave
Independence Party
Krona
Landsbanki
negligence
Prime Minister Geir Haarde
Reykjavik
sovereign bankruptcy
United Kingdom

Iceland’s former Prime Minister Geir Haarde is the first world leader to be brought to trial for his handling of the 2008 financial crisis that bankrupted Iceland and saw the collapse of the country’s three largest banks. Geir Haarde’s response to the serious charges levied against him in Reykjavik are that he is the victim […]