Thousands of
protestors rallied outside Iceland’s parliament, the Althing, on
Monday, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð
Gunnlaugsson, one day after his secret use of offshore accounts was
revealed in the leaked Panama Papers.
Gunnlaugsson
was the first world leader to be confronted directly about secret
financial dealings detailed in the massive leak, abruptly walking out
of a television interview with Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT on
Sunday when asked to explain his own interest in Wintris, a company
registered in the British Virgin Islands that had bonds in three
Icelandic banks that collapsed in 2008.
Before
Gunnlaugsson fled the room, under questioning by Johannes Kr.
Kristjansson, founder of the crowd-funded investigative site
Reykjavik Media, the first part of the interview was conducted in
English by Sven Bergman of SVT. Those first four minutes — posted
on YouTube by an Icelandic blogger, Lára Hanna Einarsdóttir — are
worth watching in full for the skillful way Bergman got the prime
minister to explain why his government so aggressively pursued tax
dodgers.
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