Two sisters have been arrested by police for allegedly attempting to blackmail Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson. Hlin Einarsdottir, the former editor of the bleikt.is and Malin Brand, a journalist at the daily newspaper Morgunblaoio, admitted sending the premier a hand-written note demanding money, local police said in a statement. The women, born in 1981 and 1977, were arrested on Friday in the town of Hafnarfjordur, near the capital Reykjavik. 'In an interrogation, the women admitted to having sent the letter in question,' a police spokesman said. 'After the investigation is completed it will be sent to the state's prosecutor.'Journalists claimed to have proof PM wanted to buy Iceland's oldest paperSent him letter demanding money in exchange for keeping quietIceland's premier and paper publisher deny any financial transactionsWomen's case is now being sent to state prosecutor
'The letter threatened that information harmful to me would be made public if I wouldn't pay millions of kronur to the author and his accomplice,' _ said in an e-mailed statement.