The curator of Islandsbanki’s collection of old banknotes was arrested on Tuesday, accused of having stolen valuable notes from the bank collection and attempting to sell them. Read the full story
Posted on 21 May 2011.
The curator of Islandsbanki’s collection of old banknotes was arrested on Tuesday, accused of having stolen valuable notes from the bank collection and attempting to sell them. Read the full story
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Posted on 18 May 2011.
A group of thieves has escaped with millions in a massive heist in Stockholm this week. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 April 2011.
An anti-bike theft scheme that cost Copenhagen City Council millions has been scrapped after just two bicycles were returned to their rightful owners since 2008. Read the full story
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Posted on 18 March 2011.
A Swedish bank robber, who locked himself in a Danish safety deposit vault over a weekend, was caught after police extracted his DNA from a bag of urine that he threw at a security guard. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 March 2011.
Two would-be-robbers got more than they bargained for in central Sweden this week when a retired professional boxer proved he can still pack a punch. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 November 2010.
The number of break-ins in the Icelandic capital and surrounding areas has fallen by 29 percent since 2009 and is now at a similar level to in 2008. Read the full story
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Posted on 25 October 2010.
A Swedish professor says his faith in humanity has been partly restored after the thief that stole his laptop returned all his files on a USB stick. The professor from Umea University in northern Sweden said he was “very happy” that, despite having his computer taken, all its contents were returned to him the following week on his own portable memory stick. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 October 2010.
Danes who feel they are being robbed by the taxman may smiled wryly upon hearing about a burglary this week in Copenhagen. At least 15 PC computers were taken from the Danish Tax Ministry in Christianshavn overnight on Thursday 31st September. 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 27 February 2010.
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
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