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Crimes
| Policeman killed in road accident |
| [Norwaynews] [05.03.2010, 10:19am, Fri. GMT] |
 A Norwagian policeman was killed early Thursday whe he was about to set up a road block in an attempt to stop a car which was trying to escape while being chased by a police patrol. The speeding car had refused to stop at a police control near Grimstad in Norway, and the policeman was about to put down a spiked mat when he was hit by the car in the early hours of the morning. The injured policeman was taken by ambulance to the Arendal Hospital, where he later died. |
 | | | | Police failed to save Woman life from the killer. |
| [Norwaynews] [25.02.2010, 05:07pm, Thu. GMT] |
| The 26-year-old Norwegian National, who was kidnapped in Norway three weeks ago while going to her workplace was found brutally killed and buried under earth and snow. In two weeks, a 25-year-old man from Asker been detained, accused of having abducted this woman. He has now admitted to have killed her. |
| | | | New passports with fingerprints |
| [Norwaynews] [25.01.2010, 10:41pm, Mon. GMT] |
 Information in new Norwegian passports issued after April 6th this year will include the holder's fingerprints. This will make Norwegian passports more secure and more difficult to manipulate. All passports already issued in Norway will still be valided, and may be used for traveling abroad. The one exception is the United States, where the authorities require so-called biometric or electronic passports which may be machine-read. |
| | | | Imprisoned for fake diplomas in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [11.12.2009, 10:09pm, Fri. GMT] |
| The University of Oslo and BI Norwegian School of Management have so far this year reported at least three cases of diploma forgery. The universities fear higher numbers, while they struggle to interpret the legal system. The Oslo police has so far this year investigated three reports on fake diplomas: One from the university and two from BI. One of the cases has been dropped, in another case an indictment has been preferred and sent to court, and in the last one the defendant was sentenced to 15 days of immediate imprisonment. All of the three cases concern foreign citizens and one of the cases is about the forging of a Norwegian diploma. |
| | | | Norwegian police act on tip from Serbia |
| [Norwaynews] [04.11.2009, 11:36am, Wed. GMT] |
| Oslo/Belgrade - Cooperation between authorities in Serbia and Norway has resulted in the recent arrest of several suspects in the Scandinavian country, Norwegian police said Tuesday. Norwegian police have cooperated 'extremely well' with Serbian police on the matter, Norwegian police prosecutor Havard Kampen said in a statement to the German Press Agency, dpa. Citing the ongoing investigation, the Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service declined to go into details about the suspects or what crime they were suspected of planning. In Belgrade, Tuesday's edition of the daily Press reported the arrests of seven suspects, quoting Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. |
| | | | Record increase in drug seizures |
| [Norwaynews] [17.10.2009, 08:50am, Sat. GMT] |
| The amount of drugs seized by the Norwegian customs and police this year has reached a record level. Of heroin alone, 94 kilos have been seized so far this year, against only 52 kilos last year. In 2008, 738 kilograms of drugs were seized at Norwegian borders, while the customs this year have already discovered 1500 kilograms of narcotics. Customs director Bjoern Roese says this is an extraordinary amount, but is of the opinion that one reason is that the Customs have become better at discovering the drugs. |
| | | | Norwegian Tamil kidnapper kidnapped in Srilanka. |
| [Norwaynews] [20.09.2009, 08:51am, Sun. GMT] |
A 49-years-old Norway National businessman “known as kidnapper Pandi” from Norway, who was visiting Colombo on Political motivated illegal business, has been abducted from his private lodge. Four unidentified person who entered the private place and kidnapped the victim, occupants at the private lodge said. The victim managed to phone his paramilitary friends and told them that he was being taken off for "inquiries" by some unidentified men.
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| | | | SriLankan refugee claims he is a Norwegian citizen in India |
| [Norwaynews] [07.09.2009, 06:38am, Mon. GMT] |
A refugee who illegally went to Rameswaram, Tamilnadu in India by Fishing Board on Sunday, told media representatives that he was a Norwegian citizen and that he had fled to India fearing arrest by the Sri Lankan government. Sivabalachandran (43), son of Rasiah of Jaffna, said he went to Norway as a small boy and completed his Engineering and later got in touch with the LTTE Links. He went to Sri Lanka a few weeks ago and when he came to know that the government was trying to arrest him, he went into hiding and escaped to India.
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| | | | Two Norwegians on trial in DR Congo |
| [Norwaynews] [15.08.2009, 03:22pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Two Norwegians, Tjostolv Moland (28) and Joshua French (27), who were detained and jailed in DR Congo earlier this summer, charged with killing their own driver, have been brought to trial. They appeared before a military court in Kisangani on Friday, killing their driver/translator on May 5th. However, after strong criticism of the handling of the case from the two men's defence lawyer, the court decided to adjourn, and to meet again on Tuesday. |
| | | | New measures against criminal gangs from Europe. |
| [Norwaynews] [01.08.2009, 07:37am, Sat. GMT] |
Justice Minister Knut Storberget has announced that new measures will be introduced in order to stop the influx of criminals to Norway from Europe. Among other things, Storberget wants the Central Mobile Police Force to control licence plates against a new data base, in order to stop mobile criminal gangs which have become a serious problem in Norway. The Justice Minister also wants Rumanian and Europe police to be attached to the Norwegian police force, to help in investigations of crimes for gain, Aftenposten reports.
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| Thousands mourn murdered woman |
| [Norwaynews] [27.02.2010, 10:42am, Sat. GMT] |
| Oslo's largest mosque was filled to overflowing Friday, when an estimated 3000 mourners gathered at the funeral of a 26-year-old woman, who was kidnapped from a Bærum bus stop three weeks ago, and found murdered on Thursday. Faiza Ashrif Norway National, called the police from the trunck of a car, reporting that she had been kidnapped by a man from a bus stop at Høvik, just west of Oslo, describing the abductor as a strongly built Norwegian man whom she did not know. She also indicated that an unwanted Pakistani-Norweegian suitor might be involved in the abduction, and gave his name. |
| | | | Morocco Olympic champion's children 'not abducted' |
| [Jpost] [03.02.2010, 04:54pm, Wed. GMT] |
The children of a Moroccan Olympic champion say they fled from his house and were smuggled out of the country with the help of Norwegian diplomats. The case has sparked an international row, with Morocco demanding that Norway put its diplomats on trial. The children of Khalid Skah, who won the 10,000m gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, have gone on Norwegian TV to say they left of their own free will. |
| | | | Family of murdered Norwegian student in call for action to extradite suspect from Yemen |
| [Norwaynews] [13.12.2009, 01:15pm, Sun. GMT] |
| The grieving father of a Norwegian student murdered in London has urged the British and Norwegian authorities to do more to bring her suspected killer to trial. The instant Martine Magnussen's friends rang from London to say she had gone missing her father Petter knew in the pit of his stomach that he would never see her alive again. Her flatmates had waved goodbye to Martine as she left a West End nightclub with their college friend, Farouk Abdulhak, in the early hours of 14 March last year. Two days later the body of the Norwegian student was found half buried in rubble in the basement of the building where he lived, near Oxford Street. |
| | | | Norway on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals |
| [Norwaynews] [23.11.2009, 03:25pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough on Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses. On Saturday vandals entered a massive tent in central Bergen and crushed most of the 650-cookie-house town, topping off the ruins with paint and fire extinguisher foam. Police in Norway's second largest city asked the public to offer information that could lead to the perpetrators. |
| | | | 4000 illegal immigrants to be expelled |
| [Norwaynews] [23.10.2009, 09:05pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Justice Minister Knut Storberget says the Government will this year expel more than 4000 persons who are staying in Norway illegally. This is 1000 higher than the number sent out of the country last year. The Justice Minister says it is necessary to transport illegal immigrants out of the country more quickly, in order to stem the record influx of asylum seekers to Norway. It just shows how important and correct it is to tighten the policy governing who will be permitted to stay, Storberget says. |
| | | | Norwegian Arrested Over Hotel Staff Stabbing in Thailand |
| [Norwaynews] [20.09.2009, 06:34pm, Sun. GMT] |
At 02.30 am, Pattaya in Thailand police investigator was reported, a man was stabbed and sustained injuries to his stomach at the New Nordic Hotel in Nongprue. The police and the rescue team rushed to investigate. Police found a Thai man, Mr. Jun Kumcha-ee, [32], the hotel electrician was lying on the floor with his hand holding a stab wound on his stomach. The wound was bleeding profusely. The rescue team rushed him to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital and luckily he survived. The victim managed to give a briefly information of the matter. He said he was stabbed by Norwegian national.
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| | | | Bulgaria arrests Lithuanian mafia boss |
| [Norwaynews] [07.09.2009, 08:17pm, Mon. GMT] |
| A Lithuanian mafia boss was detained over the weekend in Bulgaria during a joint international operation with Norwegian services, Bulgaria's interior ministry announced Monday, AFP reports. Henrikas Daktaras, 52, "a leading mafia figure in the Baltic state" and "an extremely dangerous criminal" according to a ministry statement, was detained on Saturday in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Kranevo. Daktaras, who lived in Bulgaria under a fake identity, was sought by Lithuanian authorities for some 30 killings as well as kidnappings, blackmail, trafficking and illegal arms possession, the Bulgaria ministry said. |
| | | | BP Migas official interrogated at Norway immigration |
| [Norwaynews] [24.08.2009, 07:57am, Mon. GMT] |
| Hardiono, a deputy for general affairs at the upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas, was interrogated by immigration officers at Stavanger Sola airport, Norway, after he was found bringing cash amounting to US$54,000 that he failed to declare at the customs office. BPMigas's chairman R. Priyono said that incident occurred in mid June. "We were on our road show to Europe," Priyono, who was also in the group, said during a hearing with lawmakers Monday. |
| | | | Tit for Tat - Murder for Murder? |
| [Norwaynews] [03.08.2009, 04:52pm, Mon. GMT] |
The man (39) who was shot and killed on Tøyen, Oslo last night, was convicted in 1995 for having knife killed a Somali man in Skien. According to police inspector He was convicted of intentional murder, and received ten years in prison after having pinched down and killed a compatriot with a knife at a cafe in Skien. She said that police have not yet found the murder weapon. The man who later died was found damaged hard in the car, while the other shot the victim was found on Tøyen subway station.
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| | | | Tamil activist jailed for Fraud Charges in Norway. |
| [Norwaynews] [22.07.2009, 05:11pm, Wed. GMT] |
A Srilankan Tamil man has been jailed for more than a years on tax, Company fraud charges in Norway. Known as Mr.AP, Sinsenveien 4C, Oslo, a former Airport Employ was sentenced in Oslo recently to one year prison and also ordered to pay reparation of over NOK 300,000. Tamil community in Oslo said the jail sentence sent a strong message to Tamil activists in Norway. "Both Inland Revenue and the Police (court) view tax fraud very seriously. "Inland Revenue has specialist staff working on uncovering tax evasion and Company registration fraud, and those who set out to defraud the system will be caught," One Source said. |
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The world's larges tobacco company Phillip Morris International (PMI) is taking the Norwegian state to court. PMI wants the Norwegian ban on displaying tobacco products in stores lifted, Dagens Næringsliv reports. There is no scientific evidence that the ban has any health effect, says PMI communication director Anne Edwards to the newspaper. She points to Iceland, which introduced the ban against the display of tobacco in stores in 2001.
