Tybring-Gjedde: Sale of Bergen Engines may lead to a vote of no confidence



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– The situation we are facing now is very serious and can ultimately weaken our preparedness and damage relations with our allies. , writes Tybring-Gjedde to Bergens Tidende.

– I am not unaware that the gravity and gravity of this case could force a motion of censure, it is stated.

Tybring-Gjedde is the second deputy chairman of the Storting’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

E24 has previously written that the Marjata spy ship, one of the most important electronic service tools for monitoring Russian activity in the Upper North, is maintained by Bergen Engines.

The company will be sold to the Russian-controlled TMH International, which has paid NOK 1.6 billion for the Hordvikneset engine factory.

Among Bergen Engines main customers is the Norwegian Navy. In the latest threat assessment of the Police Security Service (PST), National Security Authority (NSM) and electronic service, foreign acquisitions of strategic infrastructure are identified as a threat.

Tybring-Gjedde says it is a “security policy disaster” that the government did not conduct any risk assessment prior to the sale. Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen (H) has said that a risk assessment has been initiated and that the sale has not been completed.

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