7 Apr 2017Sisters Hlín Einarsdóttir and Malín Brand were found guilty for attempting to blackmail Icelandic Prime Minister and were sentenced 12 months in prison. “Shockingly harsh,” says Brand’s attorney.
4 Nov 2016Sisters Hlín Einarsdóttir and Malín Brand have been formally charged with attempting to blackmail then Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and his wife in May last year.
4 Nov 2015Icelandic police have concluded their investigation into an alleged attempt to blackmail the Prime Minister and the case will be referred to the public prosecutor this week.
19 Jun 2015Investigations into two blackmail cases, one of which involves the Prime Minister, are still ongoing. The topic on which the PM was asked to buy the blackmailers’ silence is still unconfirmed.
5 Jun 2015One of the two sisters arrested on suspicion of blackmailing the Icelandic Prime Minister and a second man will be pressing rape charges against the latter this morning.
4 Jun 2015The two sisters arrested on Friday for attempting to blackmail the Icelandic Prime Minister were arrested for a second time yesterday in connection with a different blackmail allegation.
4 Jun 2015Rumours now suggest that the blackmail letter sent to Iceland’s Prime Minister last week contained allegations of his involvement in securing a bank loan for an Icelandic news website.
3 Jun 2015The two sisters arrested on Friday for attempting to blackmail the Prime Minister of Iceland are allegedly now facing blackmail charges from a second man.
3 Jun 2015One of the two sisters arrested on Friday for having sent a blackmail letter to the PM has stated that she had had “nothing to do with writing or sending the letter”.
2 Jun 2015Rumours that the blackmail case has to do with the Prime Minister’s alleged involvement in funding the purchase of a well-known Icelandic newspaper have been strenuously denied.
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