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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11142

29 August 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 25
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) banking
Icesave - Netherlands sells outstanding claim

Brussels, 28/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 27 August, the Netherlands announced that it had sold the €623 million claim on the estate of the Landsbanki bank to investors.

With the sale of this claim, the Dutch government says that it has now recovered all of the €1.43 billion that the Dutch state paid to Dutch citizens who lost savings in the Icelandic bank Icesave, Landsbanki's online subsidiary that crashed in 2008 (see EUROPE 10775).

Dutch finance minister Jeroen...