Danish bicycle owners are facing widespread thievery; particularly in the capital, Copenhagen. In the past year there have been an astonishing 80,000 reports of taken two-wheelers, with just one out of every three hundred recovered by authorities. Read the full story

A right-wing extremist Swedish group allegedly aided a wealthy British art collector and noted Nazi sympathiser to steal the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” entrance sign from the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Read the full story

A foreign lady visiting Iceland lost track of her passport and money on Saturday evening. Read the full story

The alleged embezzlement of tens or hundreds of millions of Icelandic kronur by a staff member at Old Kaupthing Bank is under police investigation. The woman accused of misappropriating the funds was sacked when the issue first came to light. Read the full story

A Swedish businessman who disappeared from his hotel room in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh has been found dead by local police, who suspect that he was murdered. Read the full story

Around 500 crystals, which were on display in Berufjordur, Iceland, were stolen some time this week. The thieves concentrated solely on the gem exhibition and left everything else alone. Read the full story

A couple was forced to endure an ‘orgy of violence’ on the Danish island of Mors as local drug addicts forced them to dig their own graves, threatened them with drug overdoses and physically abused them while in capture. Read the full story

A young man went to the central police station in Reykjavik at the weekend and informed officers of a crime he had been a victim of. He said he had met two foreign men who offered to sell him ecstasy pills. However, when he gave the men ISK 10,000 they ran away with his cash. Read the full story

Last night (Sunday) a thief who was partying and possibly drunk broke into an apartment in Akureyri and stole a DVD player and computer printer. The apartment’s residents were not home at the time of the break in. The neighbours spotted the thief leaving the premises and immediately called the police reporting the theft. The theif is now in custody of the police.

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A 21-year old crewmember of the Danish Navy patrol ship, Hvidbjornen broke into a bank in central Reykjavik earlier this week. His ship was in port on a visit to the Icelandic capital.

The man was arrested in an agitated state after breaking into a closed branch of Kaupthing and stealing a small amount of Icelandic money, only in 100 and 10 kronur coins. Read the full story