Suspect in £1.45m bitcoin theft fled Iceland on PM’s plane

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An Icelander suspected of being the mastermind behind the biggest theft the tiny country has ever seen has escaped jail and flown to Sweden on the same plane as Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir.

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