Tele2- the company that brings you small bills and stolen ID

Up to 60,000 Norwegians have had their personal ID number stolen through the web site of a telecom company, and now risk ID theft, according to Norway's data inspectorate.


Through the home page of telecom company Tele2, someone has stolen the personal ID numbers of between 50,000 and 60,000 Norwegians.
The personal ID number is an 11 digit number that Norwegians are advised to keep secret. Pieced together with names and addresses, ID numbers can be used for ID theft, such as readdressing of mail or signing up for various expensive services or subscriptions in someone else's name.
People are angry. They think it is scary that someone has access to their personal ID numbers.
TELE2-THE COMPANY THAT BRINGS YOU SMALL BILLS AND STOLEN ID.

Ambulance refused to drive seriously injured man to hospital

Paramedics refused to take seriously injured Ali to hospital after he was beat up in a park in Oslo, allegedly because he had wet his trousers. Ali's family now fear that he will suffer permanent brain damage. This would never happen to a white man.
Witness was shocked by the paramedics' behaviour.
The blood was running form his head, and he seemed very groggy. When he peed by the ambulance, one of the paramedics said 'You fucking pig', and then they refused to take him with them.

Once in hospital, Ali was in surgery for almost five hours. His family said that doctors have informed them that he might suffer permanent brain damage

Babies smuggled into Norway from Bulgaria

Norway's consul in Bulgaria says he's not surprised that Norway is on the list of countries into which a Bulgarian man allegedly smuggled small children.
The Bulgarian was taped while bragging to a BBC journalist, posing as a British "customer," that he had smuggled children to Norway, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland.
The BBC aired a documentary on the alleged smuggling Thursday night that featured the man, known as "Harry." He offered to sell toddlers to the BBC's undercover reporter for a price of EUR 60,000 (about USD 82,000).
Bulgaria's interior ministry says to BBC that it has detained three people, including one who said he was a trafficker.
I've heard that some of the children has been sexually abused by pedophile..

Sex and drugs rock the city

Merchants, visitors, residents and workers in downtown Oslo are becoming downright annoyed over open drug-dealing and prostitution on several city streets. Some offenders have taken to having sex in a downtown park, just behind the venerable Akershus Fortress and Castle.

It's not very nice that it looks like a bordello in the park and on the side streets.
Norwegian politicians appear poised, when the next parliamentary session opens, to make the purchase of sexual services illegal in Norway.

Police claim they're not overlooking the illegal drug and sex activity, but say they don't have the capacity to stop it.

Less confidence in the police

Every fourth Norwegian say they have less confidence in the police than before. This is shown by a survey made for public broadcaster NRK.
The survey was made in the wake of two cases which received much publicity, and which led to a public debate which is still going on.
A man who spent 18 years for the murder of two girls, was first acquitted for the one murder, and after his death also for the second.
Last fall, a Nigerian man died while being apprehended by police in Trondheim. This case is still under investigation, after the policemen involved first had been cleared of any wrongdoing by a special police commission.

Buying sex can yield jail term

Norway's center-left government has gone along with calls to criminalize the purchase of sexual services. "Norway shall not be a free zone for pimps and human traffickers," said the Justice Minister.

The Minister unveiled a new proposed law prohibiting the purchase of sex, punishable with up to six months in jail.

Prostitution has been legal in Norway, but government officials have grown increasingly worried about the scores of foreign prostitutes on local streets in recent years. They believe most are victims of human traffickers who have forced the women into prostitution and seize the vast majority of their earnings.

The new proposed law forbidding the purchase of sex is aimed at prostitutes' customers and alleged white slavery operations.

Family tragedy believed to be a murder-suicide

Trondheim

Police in Trondheim believe a 45-year-old woman killed her two daughters before taking her own life last week, after fighting to retain custody of them.

The bodies of the woman and the two girls, aged nine and 11, were found last week inside the family's home. The door of the house was locked from the inside.
The three were killed by gases from a smoldering fire.
The woman had met her ex-husband in court on Tuesday at a preliminary child custody hearing. No decision had been made on how custody would be arranged.

Police commissioner robbed

Oslo police commissioner fell victim to a band of pickpockets on the Gardermoen airport express train.

On Monday morning thieves managed to lift the police commissioner's wallet.
Very funny!

Pelé questioned in Natal project

The world's most famous soccer player will be questioned by police in Brazil about his links to a property development in Natal, part of the international hunt for Norwegian criminal gang members.

The apartment complex King's Flat in Natal was one of the spots raided in Brazil and Pelé is one of the partners in this project and will be questioned about his role.

A Norwegian is behind the King's Flat development but Pelé is the public face of the project. The Norwegian was arrested on Wednesday.

Memorial held for murdered child

Students and teachers gathered for a memorial service on Wednesday for the little girl who was murdered along with her aunt in a brutal attack near Namsos earlier this week. Their suspected assailant is in police custody.

Her aunt, was also found murdered in her home Monday morning. She had been pregnant with twins, fathered by the murder suspect from whom she had been granted a legal separation in March.
Her 10-year-old daughter from an earlier relationship was also in the house but survived the murderous rampage. Police found her bound and assaulted, after she'd managed to call for help.
A massive manhunt for the suspected assailant, 26-year-old Bahadir Mirzaolimov, resulted in his arrest on Tuesday.

Man killed to, and two unborn children(twins)

Police in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway found two murder victims in a house.
One of the victims was a seven-year-old girl.

The other victim was a 35-year-old woman whom neighbours said was pregnant with twins. A 10-year-old girl was also found in the house, bound but alive.
Information she gave police led them to launch a search for a 26-year-old man originally from Uzbekistan, Bahadir Mirzaolimov.

What a world we live in.

Must trust offenders

This year Norway hopes to begin using an electronic fetter on convicted assailants, to be able to track the whereabouts of those under restraining orders. But the scheme will only work with the help of the offender.

The test scheme of what has been billed as a "reverse alarm" system, making the offender carry a security item rather than equipping potential victims with alarms, will begin in 2007. An electronic leg band with a GPS receiver will be fastened to the person judged dangerous, and an alarm will sound if the device comes to near to the person judged at risk.
But you can ask, what is good enough. If you really want to hurt someone badly or kill them, society cannot prevent this.

Hay-bale thief died in the act

A 53-year-old man from my neighbourhood apparently suffered a heart attack just as he and another man were stealing hay from a farm in the middle of the night.
Who wants to steal a hay-bale? I just ask...

The two men broke into a barn late Wednesday night. The men then proceeded to steal several bales of hay, worth only about NOK 80 (USD 12) each.
The owner of the farm said he found a pair of shoes inside his barn, and about 10 bales of hay on the trailer that was left abandoned nearby.

Drug network smashed

Arrests have been made in Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium as part of a concerted drug raid led by Kripos, Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS).

"Operation Broken Lorry", led by the NCIS division for organized crime, resulted in 34 arrests in the three countries and the seizure of 400 kilograms (880 lbs) of hashish, 10 kilos (22 lbs) of heroin and 6 kilos (13.2 lbs) of cocaine, just in Norway.

In addition to the confiscated drugs police have also charged several persons in connection with a 224 kilo (492.8 lb) consignment of hashish yet to be seized.

Aftenposten (norwegian)

Norway-Denmark crime spree

Additional charges brought against suspects in rampage.
The five men charged in a Dec. 18 crime spree that shocked residents of the small towns of Denmark and Norway (South Carolina, USA) made a second appearance in court Wednesday.

In a town so quiet you can hear birds flap their wings, where there's just one police car and no real traffic lights, it's hard to imagine the horror that was there.
"It's a surprising thing to me," said 83-year-old Matthew Higgins, who hangs his hat in Norway, but, in all his life, he's never heard of a crime spree coming to town.

"I really don't know exactly what happened, but it did happen," he said. "He got shot."

Huggins was talking about his brother-in-law, 81-year-old Vance Polite, who was home with his wife when police said five guys broke in.

"He was shot and pistol whipped, beat with a handgun and guns," said Norway Police Chief James Preacher, who believes the motive was money.

Sentenced for hundreds of rapes

An Oslo man was sentenced to eight years in prison for the systematic rapes of his stepdaughter over an eight-year period.

The man was also ordered to pay the girl NOK 200,000 (USD 32,000) in compensation.

According to Oslo City Court the 46-year-old began the rapes when the girl was 12 years old. They continued for three to four times a week when the girl was younger, and once or twice a week in recent years.

My opinion is that the sentence is too mild..

Dagbladet (norwegian)