Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has laid charges against Reykjavík Energy’s former horticultural department manager for embezzlement. Read the full story
Posted on 10 January 2012.
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has laid charges against Reykjavík Energy’s former horticultural department manager for embezzlement. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 December 2011.
A father has been jailed in Sweden after keeping his daughter in isolation for years and forcing her to pretend she had a mental illness in order to scoop millions in benefits. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 November 2011.
A Finnish court has given police permission to arrest a doctor who they believe has been practising medicine without a proper licence for more than 10 years. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 November 2011.
A man in Sweden is accused of fraudulently claiming several million kronor in benefits after forcing his daughter to fake a mental illness for 11 years. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 October 2011.
More than half of people connected to biker gangs in Denmark are on benefits, according to new figures. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 September 2010.
A tax scandal surrounding Danish Social Democratic leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her British spouse, Stephen Kinnock has been resolved in the couple’s favour, according to their accountant. Read the full story
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Posted on 25 September 2010.
Skuli Eggert Thordarson, Commissioner of the Icelandic Inland Revenue, says that several of his staff have needed counselling after it emerged that one of the department’s employees had helped defraud the state of ISK 270 million, as recently reported on IceNews. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 September 2010.
One of the six people currently being held in Reykjavik for large scale tax fraud worth ISK 300 million (USD 2.5 million) is an employee of the national tax authority. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 August 2010.
Police in Finland’s capital have issued advice about ‘Facebook crime’, as complaints about online pranksters are keeping cops busy. Hannu Kortelainen, of the Helsinki police, has revealed that gripes about the popular social networking site come flooding into the station on a daily basis. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 August 2010.
A Hell’s Angels leader has been ordered to pay back more than a million kronor in sickness benefits, after the Swedish Social Insurance Agency claimed he committed crimes that would have been impossible with his purported back pain. Kent Nilsson, who is a self-confessed Hell’s Angels chief from Lulea, northern Sweden, has received SEK 1.4 million (USD 200,000) in handouts since first reporting his back trouble to authorities in 1998. Read the full story
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Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
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