Tag: crime

Brekke: ‘We could have done more’

Troubled Telenor's new chief executive, Sigve Brekke, was back on national radio Friday morning, telling state broadcaster NRK that the company "could have done...

Lunder still charged in VimpelCom case

Mobile phone company VimpelCom's admission on Wednesday that it violated corruption laws won't have any effect on Jo Lunder, claims the defense attorney for the former...

VimpelCom admits to corruption

VimpelCom Ltd, the Russian mobile phone firm in which Norway's Telenor owns a major stake, has admitted in its latest quarterly report to shareholders...

Young asylum seekers moved after alleged assaults

More than 20 teenage asylum seekers who arrived in Norway without their families will no longer be allowed to attend classes at a local junior...

Addicts can be sentenced to treatment

Norway's conservative minority government, with support from most all other parties in Parliament, is making it possible for courts to sentence drug-addicted convicts to treatment...

Mass-murderer’s testimony won’t be broadcast

The ultra right-wing extremist Norwegian who killed 77 people in a terrorist attack won't be allowed to have his testimony broadcast when his lawsuit...

ID theft claims 150,000 victims in Norway

More than 150,000 Norwegians have been victims of ID theft over the past two years alone, according to a new survey reported by state...

Police officer ‘shocked’ by indictment

UPDATED: Eirik Jensen, formerly one of the Oslo Police District's most high-profile investigators and top officers, says he's "shocked" that he's been indicted for...

More queries over Statoil in Angola

Oil Minister Tord Lien and Foreign Minister Børge Brende both face more questioning by the Parliament's disciplinary committee over Statoil's controversial operations in Angola. The...

Corruption rears its head once again

Norway is generally viewed as a non-corrupt country, but over the past few years, nearly every large Norwegian company has had to grapple with...

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