Members of Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós were charged Thursday with tax evasion.
Jón þór Birgisson, Georg Hólm, Kjartan Sveinsson and Orri Páll Dýrason are accused of avoiding about $1.7 million (all figures CAD) in taxes between 2011 and 2014.
Pending trial, roughly $8.7 million worth of assets belonging to the musicians have been frozen by authorities.
“The members of Sigur Rós are musicians – not experts on bookkeeping and international finance,” lawyer Bjarnfreður Ólafsson said, in a statement. The band blamed their former accountant.
Income tax in Iceland is as high as 46 per cent.