{"id":4243,"date":"2015-06-04T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:40:48","slug":"icelands-pm-blackmailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/icelandic\/2015\/06\/04\/icelands-pm-blackmailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland’s PM blackmailed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Icelandic PM addressing the event by Control Arms on Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The scandal of\u00a0this week has been all about the prime minister Sigmundur Dav\u00edd Gunnlaugsson and two sisters, Mal\u00edn Brand and Hl\u00edn Einarsd\u00f3ttir, who attempted to blackmail him worth 8.000.000ISK (that’s about 55.000E). That on its own is interesting enough, especially for a country as small and peaceful as Iceland, but wait – it gets even more interesting with all the details added in the puzzle and I promise, you didn’t know just how small Iceland can be \u00a0before you\u00a0have\u00a0the full picture.<\/p>\n

Last Friday a letter arrived to Sigmundur Dav\u00edd, informing him that if he didn’t want the sender to go public with the information they supposedly had he would bring the money\u00a0to place X. However, instead of contacting the bank Sigmundur called the police, and the whole thing began to unravel as the two sisters were arrested on a lava field near Hafnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur where they had gone to pick up the money on the same day.<\/p>\n

The two journalists – Mal\u00edn works for Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0 while Hl\u00edn used to work as the editor for Bleikt.is – believed they had proof that the prime minister secured\u00a0a bank loan for another politician of the Progressive Party, Bj\u00f6rn Ingi Hrafnsson, which he then used to buy the newspaper DV in 2013. They viewed the value of their silence to 8 million which, to be fair, is a good sum of money. Definitely more than the mere 700.000ISK they apparently\u00a0managed to blackmail out of their suspected previous victim.<\/p>\n

Wait – what was that?<\/em> Indeed, since the matter became public another possible victim has stepped into public and has now filed charges against the two. According to his story he had consensual sex with Hl\u00edn this April and was then threatened by Mal\u00edn with a rape claim if he didn’t pay. Fearing that the sisters would not stop at that he\u00a0wanted some proof of that they would not try to squeeze him further for money, at which, he says, Mal\u00edn wrote him a receipt.<\/p>\n

Wait – what was that?<\/em>\u00a0According to the hitherto unnamed man Mal\u00edn wrote him a receipt for having paid, using her workplace’s paper (marked Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0)\u00a0and even signing it with her name… Should the receipt exist\u00a0this case\u00a0may be harder to deny than her involvement in the matter of blackmailing the prime minister, in which Mal\u00edn\u00a0says she’s been wrongfully accused.<\/p>\n

“Kjarni m\u00e1lsins er a\u00f0 \u00fearna blandast \u00e9g inn \u00ed atbur\u00f0ar\u00e1s sem \u00e9g hvorki skipulag\u00f0i n\u00e9 tengdist \u00e1 nokkurn h\u00e1tt nema fj\u00f6lskyldub\u00f6ndum.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The core of the matter is that I got mixed in a scenario that I did not plan and neither am linked to in any way besides family ties.”<\/p>\n

As for whether the accusations against the prime minister are true everything remains to be seen. It’s been speculated that the buying DV must have been quite costly, but to this day Bj\u00f6rn Ingi has not agreed to explain where the money came from. Both Sigmundur Dav\u00edd\u00a0and Bj\u00f6rn Ingi naturally deny everything they’re being accused of, Bj\u00f6rn Ingi adding that he’s grief-stricken\u00a0over the matter and why wouldn’t he be, after all Hl\u00edn is his former girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Wait, what was that?<\/em> Hl\u00edn and Bj\u00f6rn Ingi were in a relationship from 2011 to 2014, and Bleikt.is is a sub-website to Pressan.is that’s owned by… surprise surprise… Bj\u00f6rn Ingi!<\/p>\n

Small, small Iceland.<\/p>\n

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Blackmail Neon, Austin, TX by Tadson Bussey at Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n

More news about this matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iceland’s Prime Minister Blackmailed, Linked To Newspaper Purchase<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Journalists and sisters arrested on suspicion of trying to blackmail the Icelandic prime minister<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Serious allegations made against prime minister in blackmail scheme.<\/em> Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PM and DV Publisher Dismiss Blackmailers’ Claims<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

L\u00f6gma\u00f0ur Hl\u00ednar: Ranns\u00f3kn seinna m\u00e1lsins \u00e1 frumst\u00edgi.<\/em> (Hl\u00edns lawyer: the investigation of the latter matter has began) Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Engin venjuleg saga sem \u00fe\u00e6r eiga \u00feessar systur<\/em>. (Not an ordinary tale, the one these two sisters have) Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Systirin opnar sig: \u201eAllt \u00ed einu er mannor\u00f0i\u00f0 bara fari\u00f0 af \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 ma\u00f0ur blanda\u00f0ist inn \u00ed vitleysu\u201c<\/em> (The sister opens up: “All of a sudden my reputation is just gone for getting mixed up in the matter.”) Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

The scandal of\u00a0this week has been all about the prime minister Sigmundur Dav\u00edd Gunnlaugsson and two sisters, Mal\u00edn Brand and Hl\u00edn Einarsd\u00f3ttir, who attempted to blackmail him worth 8.000.000ISK (that’s about 55.000E). That on its own is interesting enough, especially for a country as small and peaceful as Iceland, but wait – it gets even…<\/p>\n

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