The announcement of the involvement of Eva Joly being hired as a special consultant to the Icelandic government and the special prosecutor’s team was introduced at a press meeting held at the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. Joly said that she would work as an advisor to the special prosecutor and that she would help get information from abroad.
Joly expected to spend some four days a month in Iceland working with the special prosecutor and his team; she would also have regular phone meetings. Ragnar Arnadottir, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Olafur Thor Hauksson special prosecutor celebrated the fact that Eva Joly had been hired but stressed that the bulk of the work would still remain with the special prosecutor’s team but it was great that they could go to Joly for consultation.
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It is really a tough job and without getting adequate information Eva Joly should not move forward.
http://www.offshoreadvisor.com/countryProfile/India.html
I’m sure she will do a decent job with this case! She seems to care enough about this issue that she will make a good fist at it! Of course we all know it’s not all in her hand, and likely will fail at the end of the day.
If anyone’s interested, here is the official press release: http://www.iceland.org/info/news/features/nr/6887
“Olafur “Winnie the Pooh” Hauksson”
hehe, i think he is as harmless as Winnie,
and most likely a honest guy.
“But Haukur just need ask Davið as he have plenty more leads to give.”
Like why the Britts used anti terror law against LB
, err no because of bank laws, beeing a cb governor, err no was fired so he can talk, eh no because this is not a issue anymore, ehh well the terror laws are still in place !!!
hmm why isnt davið telling us then hmmm
ahh hes waiting for the 4 bn $ loan he secured for us in Russia, or waiting for Svein Harald to drop interest rates from 16,5% to 12 and then raise them to 18 % days later or take his seat as the worst cb governor in Europe
or just busy writing jokes and short storys, thats what he really does Fisy.
I meaned ÓIafur Þór.
http://www.serstakursaksoknari.is/english/special-prosecutor/personnel/nr/13
Eva Joly — no idea about lady politics but no doubt she effective investigator. And this independent investigator good idea as justice not only need be done but be seen to be done.
We will see what increase of staff to 20 gives. But Haukur just need ask Davið as he have plenty more leads to give.
https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/03/23/spron-customers-safe-as-bank-buckles-under-baugur/#comment-70444
The Nordic countries are working on agreements with tax paradises and there will be a ceremony in Reykjavik the 18th of May.
More info at:
http://www.norden.org/webb/news/news.asp?lang=6&id=8474
To those who understand Norvegian, there are some interviews/talks with her on National brodcast
This one would perhaps surprice someone:
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/475308
Eva Jolys main goal this year is as I understand to be elected to the EU Parliament.
VA
I think you are (sadly) right in most of the things you mention. However regarding tax paradises there is some hope. Recently the european tax havens (Lux, Liechtenstein, Switzerland) have decided to ‘open up’ in a limited manner.
If there is a clear case in court against a specific person and if there is clear juridical evidence of a crime the tax havens have promessed to take measures .
If they refuse to do so they will be placed on the OESO black list of un-cooperative nations and this is something most tax havens (also the non-european ones) want to avoid.
So this concession of the tax havens could be put to the test if Iceland is able to start up a serious case in court against these economic criminals.
Perhaps only North Korea might remain a safe haven for their money.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_bi_ge/tax_havens
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52C21X20090313?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
Sure, she will spend a fair amount of time on this case. Enough to show that she cares, or has made a decent effort, but not enough to take the blame when the prosecution stalls and blows up. Mostly she will be on the phone hiring French investigators to do things like search bank and tax records and telling them where to look.
There are all sorts of ways this investigation and prosecution can screw up or get blocked. Starting with Olafur “Winnie the Pooh” Hauksson, the clueless boy-scout and family friend of the former crony minister who appointed him. A corrupt FME who is technically responsible for deciding whether crimes were committed and whether to prosecute, Understaffed and inexperienced FME / SS staff. Bad / corrupt prosecutors and judges. Political interference. Lack of political will. An apathetic public. Disappeared bank records, no records of the offshore accounts.
Who thinks that the Caymans or Tortola banks are going to freeze the accounts and give the money back? Has that ever occurred before?
Who thinks Sigurdur Einarsson and the rest of the bank cronies are going to sit in jail for 6-10 years? Or the Bjorgulfs? No, even if convicted they will move to Ukraine, Russia, Qatar, Paraguay or some place like that to spend their retirement years.
This investigation will be just another disappointment for Icelanders, unfortunately.
If Iceland were serious about this, they would follow the Enron and Worldcom model. File charges right away, include every possible charge, arrest them, deny bail, threaten their wives, sieze their money, send Interpol after them, force them to cooperate by threatening them with long prison sentences. That sort of thing. American justice is cruel and ugly, but it works, when the people at the top really want to nail somebody.
Easy. You’re correct, she hasn’t been contracted to do four days. But, and this is the key thing, we now know that she’ll be working on the investigation. Before she was an “adviser”.
The other important thing, assuming nothing’s being lost in translation, is that it is Joly *herself* who is expecting to work four days. So, again, we’re moving away from announcements by the government that supported your (and, indeed, my) view of her participation prior to this – i.e. that they were going to speak to her for PR purposes, but not let her into the investigation.
As I said, you’re right in pointing out that she’s not definitely spending four days. “Some” is used, in this context, to quantify a real but not precisely known figure. So it might be used it to describe a crowd at a demonstration, where you know there are a chunk of people but not exactly how many. As such, you’d be surprised if the spread wasn’t 2-6 days.
Anyway, if she’s expecting to spend four days a month on it and to have access to the investigation, you are likely to hear about it if she ends up spending only one day because she feels that she’s being obstructed :) .
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@Bromley:
EXPECTED and SOME are actually the key words in your quote.
EXPECTED means uncertainty and in other words: they dont know how is this going to work, and SOME means “maybe” in other words THEY DONT KNOW.
So dont get your hopes very high, dont be naive. I dont understan people that want to swalow EVERYTHING that is thrown at them.
C.S. Lewis said “The porpouse of an open mind is the same of an open mouth, to close arrownd something solid.” In other words dont take just everything that comes arrownd and put it in your head as a fact, specially comming from the media and the people that have just stolen our contry from us and our children and the children of our children.
>Joly expected to spend some four days a month in Iceland
That’s the key part, Easy.
Before this there were just vague statements. She’s spending a substantial portion of her time on Iceland and she’s unlikely to keep quiet if the investigation is impeded.
Eva Joly is Icelands Elliot Ness,
dont be surprized when you hear a tommy gun blasting in one of the banks :)
EVA JOLY had been “HIRED” BUT stressed that THE BULK OF THE WORK would still REMAIN WITH THE special prosecutor’s TEAM but it was GREAT that THEY COULD GO to Joly FOR CONSULTATION.
Lets read the news properly, Just wats in CAPITAL letters:
EVA JOLY “HIRED” BUT THE BULK OF THE WORK REMAINS WITH THE TEAM(the rhight team for us we mean)GREAT THEY COULD GO FOR “CONSULTATION”.
This is how this should actually be read.