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I don't know about you, but I think Icesave really affected a lot of people. If it was because Icelandic politicos were secretly in the pay of the financial sector looking for a low-regulation haven with access to EU markets, then potentially this is of substantial import, especially to UK taxpayers who bore the brunt of that mess. Granted, Iceland's implosion was still a minor side act to the financial crisis, but there are other small territories that are rather more important to the global financial system, and a financial crisis emanating from one of them could indeed be rather destabilizing - say, Singapore. The point is that size isn't really all that important for determining the impact of an individual's mismanagement of their responsibilities.
But the papers aren't about bribery, they're about having secret bank accounts and other mechanisms employed to evade or avoid paying tax. Bribery would be an altogether more serious matter and more destabilizing matter.