REYKJAVIK, Iceland (TheBlaze/AP) — An Icelandic broadcaster is reporting that Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has offered his resignation amid the offshore scandal revealed in the Panama Papers leak.
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State broadcaster RUV confirmed the resignation on Tuesday after it was announced on TV by Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, an Icelandic government minister and deputy chairman the country’s Progressive Party, the New York Times reported.
The Panama Papers leak had revealed just hours earlier that Gunnlaugsson had used offshore accounts dating back to 2007 in order to conceal ownership of a company, Wintris Inc., in the British Virgin …read more
Source: The Blaze
