Tag: crime

Deported criminals keep coming back

Foreigners convicted of crimes in Norway have been deported at a much higher rate in recent years, but statistics previously withheld by the government...

Ex-informant sparks new PST probe

Claims broadcast nationwide this week by a man who worked as an informant for Norway's police intelligence unit PST have set off a new...

Ex-PST informant stirs new debate

Debate over how Norway's police intelligence unit PST does its job has fired up again, after Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) aired a program in which...

Peruvians indicted after theft of crown jewels

Two men and a woman from Peru have been indicted in Norway on charges they stole several kilos of gold jewelry belonging to King...

Foreign spies pressure state workers

Norway's police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) has resorted to issuing a public warning over how agents for foreign countries keep trying to extract...

Police release right-wing extremist who threatened to bomb Parliament

UPDATED: The 27-year-old right-wing extremist who unleashed a massive police operation on Wednesday, after he was overheard talking about plans to blow up the...

Breivik prosecutor switches sides

Svein Holden became a familiar face last year not just to Norwegians but to TV viewers around the world, when he helped lead the...

ID scams may lead to DNA testing

Calls were being made this week for mandatory DNA-testing of children born at home in Norway, following several welfare fraud cases involving women who...

Shamed Storting ‘improves routines’

Leaders of Norway's Parliament (Storting), faced with a barrage of criticism from MPs and employees for failing to provide enough information about a bomb...

Right-wing extremist believed behind bomb threat against Parliament

Newspapers VG and Aftenposten and several other Norwegian media outlets were reporting Wednesday afternoon that the man police arrested for making threats against the...
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