Tag: crime

Yara stock rose amidst scandal

Investors didn't seem scared off when one of Norway's biggest companies was hit with the harshest corporate fine in Norwegian history on Wednesday. Shares in...

Man arrested for burning Knausgård book

A 37-year-old man was arrested in Malmø, Sweden after he set fire to a book by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård in a local...

Yara hit with record fine for bribery

Norway's white-collar crime unit, Økokrim, has finally wrapped up its lengthy investigation of bribery at one of Norway's biggest and most international companies, fertilizer...

Norwegian youth happier and healthier

Teenagers in Norway today do better at school, spend more time with their parents and aren't as caught up with drinking, drugs and crime,...

Man finally admits to killing his wife

The now-29-year-old defendant in the murder of his 17-year-old wife in the small town of Grua, Oppland County, early last summer has finally admitted...

Hacking plagues local companies

UPDATED: Norway's national security authorities are sounding alarms over the amount of serious hacker attacks on local companies. The hackers have broken into their...

Bomb scare at embassy residence

Oslo police cordoned off the area around the residence of the Egyptian ambassador late Friday afternoon, after a mysterious bag was tossed onto the...

French exhaustion postpones trial

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) postponed the trial of Norwegian man Joshua French on Friday, because French is too exhausted...

Second fraudster embezzled publisher

Norway's oldest publishing house has admitted it fell victim to two separate embezzlement cases during the same period. On Friday it emerged that a...

French team seeks indefinite delay

UPDATED: Lawyers for Joshua French, the Norwegian man accused of murdering his friend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have requested his trial...

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