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Not a negligible sum, says Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV). – Funds well used, responds Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner (H).
Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner (H).
Olav Olsen
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Arntzen de Besche’s attendance at the Ministry of Finance cost 199,375 crowns.
The transfer concerned a description of whether Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner (H) could instruct Norges Bank in the appointment of Nicolai Tangen as the new director of the Petroleum Fund.
It appears in Sanner’s reply to Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV) at the Storting. The reply is not yet public, but Aftenposten / E24 has received it from the ministry.
“My assessment is that the costs associated with the report are funds well spent,” Sanner writes in his response.
I had Tangen as a client
The appointment of Nicolai Tangen as the new director of the Petroleum Fund was heard at the Storting in August. While the Finance Committee discussed the matter, there was uncertainty about Sanner’s ability to intervene on the matter.
It was then that he went to Arntzen de Besche for an evaluation. They also had to assess whether central bank governor Øystein Olsen had violated the Central Bank Law.
The allocation assigned to the private company was highly criticized. They had had Nicolai Tangen as a client three months earlier. In addition, his conclusion was criticized by other professionals.
In the end, Sanner ordered a new evaluation of the legal department of the Ministry of Justice.
– Worth criticizing
Kaski criticizes the sum of Aftenposten / E24.
– Not a negligible sum, he thinks.
Kaski calls the assignment “an opinion from a private law firm to find support for his own opinion.”
– It’s reprehensible, adds Kaski.
Sanner’s response to Kaski comes a month after the question.
Aftenposten / E24 has requested several times in the last four weeks for access to the invoice, but was informed that the invoice was not ready.
– Ironing stands
Several parties have strongly criticized the handling of the Ministry of Finance.
– Sanner’s efforts are failing, Sigbjørn Gjelsvik said in the Center Party. Aftenposten I August.
Hadia Tajik, chairman of the committee, was also not impressed.
– There will be many reasons to gradually take a closer look at whether this could have been handled differently, he told Aftenposten / E24 in August.
