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LOSS OF SUPPORT: Portions of public funds that Shabana Rehman’s organization may have used for private purposes, according to the Ernst and Young report. Photo: Endre Alsaker-Nøstdahl
Shabana Rehman believes that the report that her foundation has used public funds for private purposes is full of errors.
On Monday night, the government announced that it would cut support for “Born Free.” The foundation is said to have used some of the state support they received for purposes other than those they received support, and lacks good financial management, a report by Ernst and Young shows, according to a government press release.
Relationship: Here’s how the Rehman Foundation used the money
A trip to London, where Rehman and an artist he collaborated with went to a concert with a-ha and bought tickets to the show “Thriller,” and a “writing seminar” at a spa hotel is part of the money. that Ernst and Young criticize the Shabana Rehman foundation. “Born Free” for.
Rehman believes the report is marked by misrepresentations:
– I have read the full report now, EY (Ernst and Young, journal. Note) tries to protect itself by saying that they are not responsible for the fact that incorrect information is disclosed to them through people or other documentation, and that Born Free has not responded none of the accusations when we were given a response time. This is not true. Our attorney has demonstrably responded to them, writes Shabana Rehman in a text message to VG.
She also specifically mentions the seminar, which according to the report also included a “day pack” at the spa, which she believes is an inaccurate interpretation:
– This had nothing to do with the spa, we rented meeting rooms, to work with Stovnerrevyen’s script, the manuscripts are dated and the statements sent. The angle in this is deliberately geared toward making professionally serious work seem like an extravagant luxury. The rest of the EY report is constructed in the same way, he writes.
Late Monday night, he also posted a ten-minute video on his Facebook page titled “Statskaka, the Princess, and the Trolls.” There it ends with the following quote:
“This is the moral of this adventure: be generous, be kind, be fair, but don’t let the trolls make you sick,” Rehman said in the video, which he said was recorded the day before.
– They never told us when the report would come out. We never saw the final report and our interrogations and statements. The lawyer’s letter was never responded to by IMDi, Rehman says.
Defender of “Born Free”, Harald F. Strandenæs, tells VG that they are surprised by the outcome of the investigation. You have forwarded the VG letter you have sent to Ernst and Young as a contradiction.
– This is a very unexpected conclusion that IMDi draws based on what appears in the report itself. We experience that the entire investigation process has been highly unsatisfactory, in part due to the rush that characterizes the work, the lawyer tells VG.
Born Free Board Chairman Jan Sverre Asker says the following to VG:
– It is shocking that IMDi issued this report before we had access to it. It seems that they have not taken our answer into account. I will discuss each point with IMDi and the government before discussing it in the media, Asker tells VG.
– Today, through VG, we have been informed that an investigative report on our business has been completed. We find the investigation very unsatisfactory. The report contains a number of errors and inaccuracies, the board chairman writes in a press release.
