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Viking Cruises Suspends Operations Until May 1st Citing Coronavirus

By Jim Walker on March 12, 2020
Posted in Disease

In a remarkable turn of events, a cruise line announced last night that it was suspending its operations until May 1, 2020 in light of the coronavirus pandemic. This was the first time that a major cruise line finally did the right thing in light of the emerging coronavirus virus.

Viking Cruises published an open…

Viking Cruise Executive Indicted for Corruption

By Jim Walker on October 13, 2015
Posted in Fraud

Viking Ocean Cruises CEO Torstein Hagen has been indicted in Norway on corruption charges arising out of the christening of the Viking Star cruise ship.

As we previously reported last week, the Godmother for the new cruise ship, Trude Drevland, the mayor of Bergen City in Norway, has been under police investigation due to allegations…

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