Silfur Egils, the talk show was packed yesterday with lots of good information. You can watch it here at Lara Hanna’s blog. Many of the interviews are in English, including Eva Joly, Alain Lipietz, Michael Hudson and Gerard Van Vliet. Gerard is the spokesperson for the Dutch savers who haven’t been reimbursed for the money [...]

Joly knows the stakes are high. “This is so much larger than Elf,” she says later with relish, “but we don’t know just how much larger. Not yet.” From the Financial Times

Looks like Eva Joly got the memo. Click here to see her Kastljos’ interview from last night. She definitely seemed more positive than last time she was here, which is exactly what the nation needs. She is absolutely correct in pointing out that there are not going to be magical solutions, that things are going [...]

The Office of the Special Prosecutor conducted a search at KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers yesterday. Twenty-two people took part in the operation which is supposed to gather information on whether Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbankinn knowingly published misleading information about their assets’ worth in annual and quarterly reports. According to Eyjan.is the group that entered KPMG is [...]

“Whatever you say about the Icelandic banks, they operated within the framework of the European regulations on banking and finance,” Grimsson, who is the country’s head of state and doesn’t lead the government, said in an interview with Bloomberg radio in New York today. From Bloomberg The president who’s got his foot firmly stuck in [...]

Special prosecutor Olafur Thor Hauksson and Eva Joly are in London today meeting with Richard Alderman, head of Serious Frauds Office. The purpose of the meeting according to mbl.is is to examine grounds for co-operation. SFO took the initiative last month, as it has Kaupthing, Landsbankinn and Glitnir under investigation.

Separately, the Serious Fraud Office is understood to have contacted Eva Joly, the Icelandic government’s fraud consultant, in the hope of arranging a meeting. The SFO is in the process of gathering intelligence on Kaupthing in London, where two-thirds of its corporate loan clients were based. From the Telegraph

Gordon Brown has in this context, declared for the British parliament that he works “with the IMF” for the best possible to estimate what they are entitled to demand of Iceland. IMF on its side not only exposes the process by providing loans to the outline of Iceland, but set conditions that can be characterized [...]

Deutsche Welle: Ms Joly, how would you compare this investigation with the Elf Aquitaine affair? Eva Joly: This is much huger, much much more important. This bankruptcy is much bigger than Enron, involving a lot of people, involving other banks, and really the investigation is huge. From Deutche-Welle

Eva Joly interviewed last week by Kastljos. In english.