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Katrín Jakobsdóttir

A copy of bitcoin standing on PC motherboard is seen in this illustration picture, October 26, 2017

Escaped Icelandic computer thief boards flight with Icelandic PM

Justice

An Icelandic man arrested on suspicion of stealing about 600 computers used to mine the cryptocurrency Bitcoin escaped prison and fled the country on a commercial flight to Sweden.

Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir meets people at a stand of her party set up at the Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik on Oct. 25, 2017.

Iceland’s most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the ‘anti-Trump’

Global Politics
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