Following a far-reaching investigation into VAT and duty fraud Copenhagen police have charged sixteen people and three companies with tax evasion and receiving stolen goods for around DKK500m ($76m). Working under the codename…

When Lone Dencker Wisborg starts work in Washington DC on April 1st 2019 it will be as Denmark’s first-ever female ambassador to the USA. Ms Wisborg, currently State Secretary/Chief Operating Officer (COO) at…

A coalition of international law firms are preparing a class action lawsuit against Danske Bank on behalf of foreign investors who’ve suffered major losses as the bank’s share price has dropped in the…

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, is being dragged into the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. After whistleblower Howard Wilkinson testified to Danish MPs, Monday, that ‘a major European lender’ helped process up to…

The economic upswing continues to bring new jobs. 3,100 new wage earners joined the labour market in September, taking the total number of employed to 2.76 million. Senior Danske Bank economist characterised the…

Denmark’s ambassador to Iran, Danny Annan, is returning to Tehran today one month after he was recalled following the allegations over an Iranian plot to kill an opposition activist in Denmark. His Iranian…

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday stressed their hopes for a close relationship with Britain after the country leaves the EU next year. At a brief press conference…

Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has acknowledged that the processing period for immigrants who are ill and appealing deportation on humanitarian grounds is far too long – up to 15 months in some cases….

A former Danish gang leader was brutally assassinated shortly after leaving the launch party of his memoir about escaping the criminal underworld. Nedim Yasar, 31, quit Los Guerreros, a Copenhagen gang involved in…

Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen has promised a full review of the exit programme for gang members following the brutal slaying of Nedim Yasar. The ex-gang leader quit Los Guerreros, part of the…