Tag: crime

Police can continue to carry arms

Justice Minister Anders Anundsen issued another extension this week that will allow Norwegian police to continue carrying arms at least until August 20. The...

Bergen police launch hunt for church arsonist

Police in Bergen fear they may have another church arsonist on their hands, after someone tried to light a fire at a back entrance to...

SAS wins contract for prisoner transport

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has won a state contract to transport Norwegian prisoners to the Netherlands, where Norway struck a deal to confine them in...

Sheep-napping puzzles police

Four sheep disappeared from where they were grazing in Vinstra in the valley of Gudbrandsdalen Friday evening, only to turn up more than 80 kilometers away...

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...

Police nab dangerous prison escapee

Police confirmed early Monday morning that they had captured a man who'd escaped from prison in Kristiansand early last week. They had described the...

Man held in 16-year-old murder case

UPDATED: Police in Vestfold have re-arrested a man and charged him with the murder of 12-year-old Kristin Juel Johannessen 16 years ago this summer. The...

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...

Three convicted of human trafficking

Three members of a family charged in what's been called Norway's most extensive human trafficking case ever were sentenced to jail terms on Thursday that...
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