Topic: Panama Papers - Iceland Monitor

Panamaskjölunum var lekið frá lögfræðistofunni Mossack Fonseca.

Greiddu 5 milljónir evra fyrir Panamaskjölin

5 Jul 2017 Yfirvöld í Þýskalandi hafa greitt milljónir evra fyrir hin svonefndu Panamaskjöl. BBC hefur eftir talsmanni skrifstofu þýska ríkissaksóknarans að skjölunum verði komið yfir í rafrænt form svo hægt verði að gera ítarlega skoðun á þeim.

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, MP for the Progressive Party.

Former PM of Iceland forms new progressive society

25 May 2017 Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, former PM and former leader of the Progressive Party who was implicated in the Panama Papers last year, has announced the founding of a new society called Framfarafélagið (The Progressive Society). He says he's not creating a new poltical party but that the society will probably develop with time.

Disgraced former Iceland PM blames state broadcaster

29 Dec 2016 Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the former PM of Iceland who was toppled from power following revelations connected to the Panama Papers scandal earlier this year is demanding a formal apology from the director of national broadcasting service, RÚV.

"Icelanders are unique: they are few, they are educated, and democratically minded. Hopefully change will start here."

Eva Joly: Iceland has a corruption problem

18 Oct 2016 French politician Eva Joly believes Iceland has a problem. She was interviewed on Kastljós, a news programme on the RÚV last night. The problem: 600 Icelandic names in the Panama Papers. She believes that politicians have failed and that the general public must take matters into their own hands.