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Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop Bounty Hunter To Go After The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy

Posted on July 15th, 2012 at 16:00 by John Sinteur in category: Robber Barons -- Write a comment

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If you were involved in Icelandic high finance in the runup to the recession, you might want to start watching your back.

That’s because the government has appointed a white collar crime bounty hunter who wants to haul your behind in (alive, to be sure).

LeMonde reporter Charlotte Chabas has a profile of Ólafur Þór Hauksson, a former local police lieutenant whom the Iceland government appointed to track down individuals likely to have helped sink the country’s banking sector during the credit crunch.

  1. My vote is that they are offered two choices – cough up the $$, or spend the next 20 years in prison, next to an active volcano…

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