Geir Haarde

PANAMA PAPERS: Iceland Prime Minister Interview ✪ English Subtitles ✪ Icelandic PM Tax Haven

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• published: 04 Apr 2016
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A longer version of the interview SVT did with Iceland's Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson. The Uppdrag Granskning crew invited Sigmundur for an interview, exposing the PM's hypocracy of tax evasion. This was all made possible by the recent leak of classified documents, The "Panama Papers". Amoung the over eleven million documents, several high level figures were exposed to be involved in actions allowing them to hide away tax money in offshore tax havens. Some of these people were trusted world leaders and politicians, one of them being current Prime Minister of Iceland! See the incredible interview of the Iceland PM here yourself! The original interview was performed by Swedish Television Channel SVT. The Edit used in this video was put together by Norwegian news agency Aftenposten. This Channel merely shared it further on Youtube after adding in English subtitles, so that English speakers too can understand the parts of the interview where the Iceland Prime Minister and the SVT journalist speak Icelandic. This Interview with the Prime Minister did not go quite as planned for Sigmundur, Prime Minister since 2008. Not only did the journalist come up with some uncomfortable questions, but managed to expose the Icelandic leader for his criminal activities! The Prime Minister ends up denying everything, calling it all nonsensical and absurd before walking straight out of the interview! That's right: Iceland’s prime minister walks out of interview over the heavy hitting tax haven questions! The leaked documents known as the Panama Papers reveal that in 2007 Gunnlaugsson and his wife, Anna Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir acquired Wintris through one of Iceland's three major banks, Landsbanki and used it as a shell company to invest funds. Despite stepping into power following the worst financial crisis to ever affect the country, Gunnlaugsson did not report his ownership of Wintris. Following his 2009 election he sold his half of the company to his wife for $1. The Panama Papers, allegedly detail 214,000 offshore entities of about 140 political figures including the president of Ukraine, the king of Saudi Arabia, the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, and the children of the president of Azerbaijan. Geir Haarde stepped down as Icelandic PM in 2009 following the collapse of the country's currency and banking system as a result of the GFC and the fall of the nation's three major banks. The Prime Minister of Iceland was only one out of 12 other world leaders to be involved in the Panama Papers scandal, but the Icelandic PM was maybe the biggest shock of them all. Who would've thought this happened even in little humble Iceland? Watch the look on the face of the distressed Iceland PM as soon as the journalist asks about the tax haven company called Wintris. Go watch my funny edit of the interview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbOa... Edit: There's no also english subtitles for the parts were english is spoken.