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The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Norway, Jon Nicolaisen, resigned because he could not approve the security procedures due to marrying a Chinese wife – Photo: e24.no
Mr. Jon Nicolaisen said in his resignation letter to the bank that he is working on December 4 with the following content: “The Norwegian Civil Safety Inspection Agency informed me the reason why they did not approve me. security in this security procedure because my wife is a Chinese citizen, residing in China, where I support her financially.
“They also said that there was no personal factor preventing me from getting my security pass, but this is not heavy enough. Now I have to face my own consequences. This one.”
As deputy governor of the Central Bank of Norway, Nicolaisen has a special responsibility to oversee the management of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest fund worth more than € 1 trillion.
According to public information from the bank, Mr. Nicolaisen and his wife were married in 2010. He was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank in 2014, and will continue to be appointed in April 2020..
The political background has made it difficult because Norwegian authorities often accuse China and Russia of conspiring to spy on this country. Diplomatic relations between Norway and China were thus frozen for a long time after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010..
Relations between the two countries normalized in 2017.
