- Malthe-Sørenssen case is a wake – Dagsavisen

Yesterday revealed VG that another lawyer has been tried ripped off. This time it was lawyer Mona Høiness who allegedly falsified a will that made her sole heir of over 100 million from the couple Per and Synnøve Urdahl.

 
 

– A case that this is a wake. But to guard completely against cunning fraud, is not easy in a busy and exciting life, says Jon Wessel-Aas, one of Norway’s most experienced media law attorneys.

 
 

In mid-February revealed VG Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen several years bluffed lawyer Harald Stabell that he had contact with an intelligence officer who was sitting on information that could lead to a reopening of Treholt case. In reality agent a convicted murderer used car salesman in Sweden as Malthe-Sørensen owed money to.

 
 

Lawyer in inheritance dispute

 
 

According Malthe-Sørenssen should Høiness ex-husband have taken away her old computer to Dubai and resold it to Malthe-Sørenssen source. On your PC, it should allegedly found emails proving Testament was a forgery – he claimed – and offered his services to URDAHL biological heirs.

 
 

But neither PC or data files appeared. This was still a central topic when inheritance dispute was dealt with in the High Court in March 2014. There, testified Malthe-Sørenssen, but refused to disclose the Dubai-source name. According to VG Urdahl-relatives paid him almost 400,000 crowns.

 
 

– Both lawyers, journalists, courts and others who are seeking the truth have roles that must be exercised source criticism and source control. Cases where the credibility of Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen has been given decisive weight should goose more closely now, said Jon Wessel-Aas.

 
 

filth into the light

 
 

Special Employee and longtime General Nils Island in the Norwegian Association of Editors find it tragic that people who have worked as journalists appear to have used their skills and contacts to commit fraud.

 
 

– Even worse is that this is not the only case of journalist cheating we have discovered lately. Only consolation is that colleagues and the media have made disclosures and helped to get filth into the light, says Nils Island.

 
 

Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen has for years worked for a number of major newsrooms, where Manager, ABC News and the NRK focal point is the most recent. According to NTB he should have been paid 255,000 crowns focal point for projects ranging from 2010 to 2015.

 
 

– We are almost finished with the review of the projects he has worked for NRK, but it remains to check some conditions around one issue. We will go out with the conclusion when we are completely finished, probably next week, says ethics editor Per Arne Kalbakk NRK.

 
 

– We have reviewed everything, but we have not been able to find that there are some irregularities in the cases he produced the ten months he was a substitute with us in 2011, says editor Tor Strand in ABC News.