Reykjavík police have completed their investigation into the biggest illegal drugs find of 2011 and the case has now been passed on to the state prosecutor. Two men, in their forties and fifties, remain in custody over the case. Read the full story
Posted on 07 January 2012.
Reykjavík police have completed their investigation into the biggest illegal drugs find of 2011 and the case has now been passed on to the state prosecutor. Two men, in their forties and fifties, remain in custody over the case. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 March 2011.
The seven people arrested in London yesterday in the Serious Fraud Office investigation into the collapse of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank, have all been released on bail. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 January 2011.
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 October 2010.
A global crackdown on the sale of illegal sex pills over the internet has resulted in the arrests of a number of Swedes. According to reports by broadcaster TV4, Police in Sweden have shut down six online pharmacies and seized 60,000 Viagra-like impotence tablets. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 July 2010.
Three men have been arrested under suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in Norway. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 July 2010.
Reykjavik capital region police yesterday arrested seven people in Hafnarfjordur in connection to raids which revealed a huge stash of stolen goods. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 May 2010.
Further arrests of former Kaupthing bosses by Iceland’s Special Prosecutor into the banking collapse are considered likely in the near future. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 June 2009.
Authorities from four Nordic nations cooperated in a secret sting operation tracking Scandinavians distributing and downloading child pornography. After a month of legwork, the inter-Nordic investigation raided dozens of addressed and arrested many people. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 December 2008.
Yesterday afternoon’s 15.00 debates in the Icelandic parliament had to be postponed until 16.10 while police cleared some 30 protesters from the public gallery. Most of the protesters were arrested and taken to the main police station. Some other people were also arrested for hustling police officers outside the building. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 August 2008.
Police in southwest Iceland arrested two men who had been causing trouble onboard an Icelandair flight which landed late on Monday evening from Manchester, UK, MBL.is reports.
Police officers deemed the two men, both in their 30s, who were heavily intoxicated, to be too much of a danger and a nuisance to be loose in the Keflavik airport terminal building.
The men were put in handcuffs in reaction to their resisting arrest.
The police took the men into holding cells at the airport, where they were allowed to sleep the alcohol off.
In a separate incident, late on Tuesday night a Delta plane on its way to Moscow from Atlanta had to land at Keflavik to unload a violent and drunk passenger who cabin crew had been forced to tie down to his seat.
Police took the Russian man from the plane and allowed him to sleep the alcohol off in a holding cell. The original article did not state what happened to the man next.
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