Ahead of the release of its ‘anti-ghetto’ plan tomorrow, aimed at reducing the growth of parallel societies, the government has come under fire for its move to double the sentences for offences committed in…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has distanced himself from the Social Democrats’ attempt to reduce non-western immigration to Denmark. During parliamentary question time, Tuesday, the PM said the opposition party’s proposal to turn…

The Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) suggestion of an ‘immigration alliance’ alongside the Social Democrats, excluding the government, is ‘understandable’ but ‘unfeasible’, opposition leader Mette Frederiksen said yesterday. DPP leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl has offered…

A former Kurdish-Syrian leader who was arrested in Prague on Saturday on his way to Copenhagen has been released by a Czech court, sparking off a diplomatic crisis between the Czech Republic and Turkey. Saleh Muslim,…

Danske Bank lost up to DKK10bn (($1.6 billion) in value yesterday after Berlingske reported how President Putin’s cousin and members of Russia’s intelligence agency may have used the bank’s branch in Estonia to…

Estonia’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has launched an investigation into Danske Bank following a report in Berlingske, Tuesday, that said a whistleblower had alerted the bank in December 2013 about money laundering linked…

Former prime minister and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has defended his role as advisor to a Latvian bank heavily implicated in an international money laundering and corruption scandal. Riga-based Nordvik Bank,…

People linked to President Putin’s family and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have allegedly laundered money through Danske Bank’s Estonian branch, Berlingske reports. A whistleblower warned in a 2013 report sent directly to the…

Politicians have reacted angrily to Berlingske’s disclosure that Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, shut down Russian accounts after concluding they were possibly being used to launder money by members of Russian president Vladimir…

Denmark’s first Muslim high school could be forced to close down due to poor finances and links to Islamic organisations. Hindholm STX, a private high school close to Næstved, south-west of Copenhagen, opened…