Landsbanki has taken over the company Fjolnisvegur 9 ehf, which was owned by Hannes Smarason. The company owned Fjolnisvegur 11 in Reykjavik and a flat in London. According to the information from Landsbanki has the bank taken over the assets.

The police of the capital area was unable to tend to five calls tonight because of work load. The Morgunbladid has documents that show amongst other that one of these calls were because of a break in where the house owner was able to scare the burglars away.

Another police officer has now stepped forward and sent an anonymous letter about the situation inside the police and the effect of the enormous cut backs on the police. There says that at least for the past two nights where under normal conditions should have been categorized as calm, were "crazy" and the police had been unable to tend to many calls.

The bankrupt estate of Samson, the holding company of the Bjorgolf father and son, has filed five law suits against Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson himself and related companies because of trades that took place before Samson went into moratorium. The announced claims on the bankrupt estate of Samson is getting close to 100 billion króna as is, but its assets are only roughly 2,3 billion króna.

The bankrupt estate of Samson sued Straumur Equities because of trades that took place on June 25th 2008 with shares in the holding company MGM but the only asset of that company was a 16,7% share in Arvakur publishing company of Morgunbladid.

House search made by the office of the special D.A. at Sjova is related to the companies investment operations from what Hordur Arnarson chairman of Sjova says. He confirmed in a conversation with Morgunbladid that there had been made a house seach in the company this morning and various documents of the company seized.

Ögmundur Jónasson minister of health refuses to let the mayor of Reykjanesbær but him up against a wall, but the Heilsufélag Reykjaness, Salt Investments and the nordic healtfirm Nordhus Medical are waiting answere to weather they will be able to rent the underutilized surgeries of the Sudurnes Hospital and Health Center.

Novator still has it's share in Actavis in a sales process, Novator is by far the biggest owner in the company. According to sources of Morgunblaðið they have received no satisfactory offer for the shares.

Big investers in the market, like international drug companys, have held back and therefore mergers and takeovers are fewer.  The takeover of Actavis by Novator in 2007 was almost entirely financed with loans from the Deutsche Bank. 

Liquidating managers of Baugur Group are now investigating transfers of assets out of the estate of the company over on to the name of the chairman of the company, Jon Asgeir Johannesson during the months before the company went into bankruptcy proceedings, according to a news article in the English newspaper Telegraph today. There says that the assets in question are assets in France, England and Denmark.

Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson says that neither him or his father have been sued because of the debts of Samson holdings to the bank. Bjorgolfur says that discussions about the payoff of the debt has been ongoing for the last weeks and months and he does not intend to try to avoid his responsibility of paying the debt nor other debts to Icelandic and foreign loan institutes.