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Telenor caught in cloud of suspicion

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another of Norway's biggest state-controlled companies, Telenor, is facing serious and ever-growing corruption suspicions around its business expansion abroad. Some of the biggest...

Government fires Telenor chairman

Svein Aaser resigned under fire on Friday as chairman of state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor, after Trade Minister Monica Mæland expressed a lack of confidence in...

Telenor stuck with VimpelCom shares, for now

Telenor, Norway's large international telecoms firm, is still keen to sell off its stake in mobile phone company VimpelCom but probably won't be able to...

Rig firm charged with corruption

Another major corruption case is unfolding in Norway, involving what may be the largest amounts of alleged bribes ever paid by a Norwegian company. Raids on various offices...

Telenor keen to dump VimpelCom

Norway's international telecoms firm Telenor, now under a new CEO, appears keen to cut off its profitable but long-troubled involvement in the Russian-dominated mobile phone...

Bergen mayor charged with corruption

Trude Drevland, the outgoing mayor of Bergen, was charged with corruption on Friday as was the chief of Bergen's harbour authority, Inge Tangerås. The...

Veteran Yara executive fired

Tor Holba, a longtime top executive at Oslo-based fertilizer firm Yara International, has been fired after an Oslo court convicted him and three other former Yara...

Ex-Yara bosses sentenced to jail

Norway's largest-ever case of corporate corruption reached a new climax on Tuesday when a judge in Oslo convicted the former chief executive officer of fertilizer...

Yara case set off Libyan probe

Norway's biggest corruption investigation ever, into alleged bribes paid by former top executives of Oslo-based fertilizer giant Yara International, has also set off a much...

FIFA disappointed over Nobel snub

The embattled international football federation FIFA reacted badly on Tuesday to a decision by Oslo's Nobel Peace Center to back out of their joint "Handshake for...
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