Kaupthing four receive prison sentence
Above on the picture are Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson. Below are Magnús Guðmundsson and Ólafur Ólafsson. mbl.is/Kristinn
Today, the Supreme Court of Iceland sentenced the four directors and owners of Kaupthing bank in the Al-Thani case to prison.
Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, Kaupthing's former chief executive, received a sentence of five and a half years, Sigurður Einarsson, former chairman at Kaupthing, received a sentence of four years and Magnús Guðmundsson, former CEO of Kaupthing Luxembourg, and Ólafur Ólafsson, who was the bank’s second largest shareholder at the time, received a sentence of four and a half years.
The four men were not present at the trial.
Sigurðsson was sentenced to pay 24,7 million ISK , Einarsson 14 million ISK Ólafsson 17,7 million ISK and Guðmundssdon 20 million ISK.
Initially, in the autumn of 2008, Q Iceland Finance, the holding company of Al-Thani, was reported to have bought a 5.01 percent share in Kaupþing but later it was revealed that Kaupþing itself financed the majority of the purchase.
The case of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against the Kaupþing four opened in Reykjavík District Court in March, 2012. The District Court found them guilty of breach of trust and market abuse in December 2013.
