It was late 2008, and Iceland's three largest banks had gone under, the krona was spiraling downward, and unemployment was surging. Citizens pelted the parliament building in down-town Reykjavik with eggs, tomatoes, and yogurt. Parliament responded by creating the Office of the Special Prosecutor to round up all the bad bankers who made this mess-yet the government failed to receive a single resume. At last, Olafur Hauksson, the police chief of Akranes, a small bedroom community across the bay from Reykjavik, stepped forward to pursue Iceland's financial criminals. "If I had refused, I wouldn't have been comfortable," he says. "I thought there were questions that had to be looked into."
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