Tag: crime

Big cocaine bust shakes Bergen

Police in Bergen started their long holiday weekend by announcing the city's biggest cocaine bust ever. In addition to seizing relatively large quantities of...

Justice Minister keen to halt begging

Norway's Justice Minister Knut Storberget has come out in favour of reimposing some sort of ban on begging, even though his government was in...

Mental illness common in murders

Of the 132 murders occurring in Norway during the past five years, fully a third of the murderers showed signs of mental illness. Psychiatric...

Norwegians sentenced to jail in Bolivia

Two young Norwegian women who were caught with cocaine in their luggage while leaving Bolivia nearly two years ago have been sentenced to 13...

Another police officer killed on duty

A veteran police officer in the northern Norwegian city of Mo i Rana was stabbed to death while trying to take a 62-year-old psychiatric...

DnB NOR closes false ID loophole

Norway's largest bank, DnB NOR, is finally closing a loophole that has allowed illegal aliens to open bank accounts, obtain work permits and other...

Defendants deny cocaine smuggling

Two Norwegian women on trial in Bolivia continue to deny they had any idea that they were carrying 22 kilos of cocaine in luggage...

Norwegians’ trial begins in Bolivia

Three young Norwegian women caught with 22 kilos of cocaine in their luggage are finally getting their day in court in Bolivia. Two of...

False passports allow illegal residence

Several hundred Albanians are reportedly living in Norway under false identities, after obtaining and using counterfeit passports that helped them get residence permission, open...

Arrests made after jewelry store heist

Police in Oslo have arrested seven persons in connection with a spectacular jewelry store heist last month that ranks as the one of the...
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