Asks corruption accused Jo Lunder quiet in Parliament – Dagbladet.no

A long postponed parliamentary consultative hearing SCSCA be held on 27 May. This is clear after a meeting in Parliament today.

Among the invitees are among others the former Vimpelcom-top Jo Lunder, who now is corruption charged.

In addition, also requested former Telenor CEO, Jon Fredrik Baksaas about asking, former chair Svein Aaser and the recently retired directors Counsel Pål Wien Espen and CFO Richard Aa.

It tells parliament Abid Q . Raja (V) to Dagbladet this afternoon.

– Did not?

– of course, no one is obliged to meet, says Raja to Dagbladet. There is still little doubt that he and his colleagues in SCSCA expect that they “invited” as he calls it, will go to great lengths to get the hearing in Parliament.

He signals that can be asked about how much they really knew about the corruption, such as the amount that arrived via informal chat at times and lunches.

– it’s a little hard to believe that nobody ever senior executives have talked about the corruption thing when the detector at least twice notified, says Raja.

he asserts that he will not settle down with that kind of information not contained in the case documents and the like .

Major Corruption

Jo Lunder, who now requested to meet in Parliament along with a number of former Telenor tops, were arrested by the Norwegian authorities Gardermoen, November 5 charged with serious corruption. The investigation is still ongoing.

Committee Chairman Martin Kolberg (Labor) said that there is a misgiving related to this:

– We do not touch the possibly criminal aspects of this case. It is the police’s responsibility. But Jo Lunder has eksmpel been at a meeting where both Aaser and Espen were present to clarify this matter. As far as I understand the Aaser it emerged there that everything was okay, which it defiinnitivt was not, says Kolberg told Dagbladet.

Vimpelcom admitted in February to have paid nearly one billion kroner (114.5 million dollars) in corruption to the Uzbek president’s daughter Gulnara Karimov in exchange for lucrative licenses.

– Keeps not

Company accepted while a fine of about six billion to the US Government and the Netherlands.

– We have many questions about what the Ministry has been informed about this, says Committee Chair Martin Kolberg told Dagbladet.

– I hear it all the time made a distinction between the sitting of the Board of Vimpelcom and being president of Telenor. In Deloitte reports give the other directors of Vimpelcom who came from Telenor criticism that they did not inform Baksaas. Not as director of Telenor, but as a new director in Vimpelcom. You must be a lawyer to understand that the kind of reasoning is valid. That might be holding in a courtroom, but it does not hold to the Storting, he said.

Political and moral

– We evaluate the issue at a political and moral basis. Jurisprudence will do his, the police do their. We do our part, says Martin Kolberg.

He believes it is now necessary for the state to use the ownership policy so that it is “clearly for the boards of these companies that if they do not follow parliamentary resolution so must their position is considered.”

– How would you look at that some refuse to come to the hearing?

– we must only take note. We can not do anything about it. But I hope that they come and that everyone sees it beneficial to come and talk to the Norwegian Storting, says Martin Kolberg.