Three charts that show Iceland's economy recovered after it imprisoned bankers and let banks go bust - instead of bailing them out

"It is dangerous that someone is too big to investigate - it gives a sense there is a safe haven."

Iceland’s finance minister has announced a 39 per cent tax on investors looking to take their money overseas.

The country has imposed the tax to prevent it hemorrhaging money as it loosens bank laws imposed six years ago, when Iceland made the shocking decision to let its banks go bust.

Iceland also allowed bankers to be prosecuted as criminals – in contrast to the US and Europe, where banks were fined, but chief executives escaped punishment.

The chief executive, chairman, Luxembourg ceo and second largest shareholder of Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank that collapsed, were sentenced in February to between four and five years in prison for market manipulation.

ADMIN: IT IS THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO COMMITTED FRAUD THAT NEED TO BE JAILED 

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