The Norwegian Nobel Institute announced today that it has filed a report with the police after receiving a fake nomination that appears to be the name of US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
"We have enough reasons to believe that the nomination we have received is a fake," said Olaf Newsted, director of the Nobel Institute.
He declined to give any further details, adding that the case was in the hands of the police.
Each year nominations are submitted before 31 January. Among the authorized figures are names, parliaments, governments, prize-winners and some university professors.
While the list of candidates is kept secret for at least 50 years, candidates are allowed to reveal their options.
The Oslo Peace Research Institute announced in early February that the name Trump on the list of candidates for the award.
As happened last year, Trump was nominated for his "ideology of forceful peace" by an American who asked not to be named, according to the Oslo Institute. The Institute is an independent body of the Nobel Foundation that monitors candidatures that are publicly disclosed.
It is possible that the person who nominated Trump for the award has become impersonated to qualify for the nomination of names.
The Nobel Institute said it had received 329 valid nominations for the 2018 Peace Prize. The five members of the Nobel Committee that chooses the winner being allowed to nominate names at their first meeting of the year, which was held on Monday.
The name of the 2018 winner will be announced in early October.