STAVANGER, norway: Statoil has chosen to break a letter of intent with Norsk Helikopterservice after the police have charged a Statoil employee and a leader in the helikopterselskapet for gross corruption.
Statoil says that they started the internal investigation of an employee when the company received notification about possible violations of internal rules.
– Statoil has given the police information about the case, and the police have taken out charges against the employee and a person in Norsk Helikopterservice for gross corruption, says Statoil in a press release.
the Person in helikopterselskapet according to Stavanger Aftenblad, a leading position. Also, Økokrim has started investigation of the possible korrupsjonssaken.
the Agreement is about the bakcup of a search and rescue helicopter (SAR). Statoil does not have other agreements with helikopterselskapet, and stipulates that the SAR capacity meets the current requirements also after that this specific agreement was cancelled.
Suspended
Statoil emphasises that the internal investigation is not finished, and that it also has not been taken out the indictment or fell any judgment in the case. Both the charged refuse straffskyld.
– the Police have with respect to the investigation requested that Statoil currently pending further investigation of the case. Statoil will of course cooperate with the police in the investigation. The employee is temporarily suspended from the position, says Statoil.
The korrupsjonssiktede Statoil employees, according to Aftenbladet “occasionally spotlighted”. Police believe he may have exploited his trusted position to obtain undue advantages from the helikopterselskapet.
The employees in Helikopterservice will remain in the job while the investigation is ongoing.
– My client will set itself completely rejected this. There is nothing that he has done that is a korrupsjonshandling. On the contrary, he is a man who is concerned to do things by the book, ” says the man’s defense, Inger Marie Sunde, Norwegian broadcasting corporation.
Ransakinger and fittings
Both were arrested on Wednesday last week. While the leader of Norsk Helikopterservice was released the very next day after he was arrested, was the Statoil employee is released on Friday.
Police conducted ransakinger both at home with them, and in the workplace. The police have taken the seizure of large quantities of documents.
As the police have secured extensive documentation and several key persons have already been questioned, regarded the police it is not necessary to distinguish the persons charged with varetektsfengsling, says politiadvokat Tor Arvid Bruskeland by Økonomiseksjonen in the South-West police district.
He says the investigation will show whether the two have received money or services or both in an illegal manner.
Oriented in the fall
According to Aftenbladet oriented Statoil police already earlier in the fall about what they suspected was a serious korrupsjonssak. According to the newspaper case has ramifications to Canada.
Statoil took in the fall new contact with the police in Stavanger with new information about the case, which led to pågripelsene, ransakingene and seizures last week.
Attorney Tor Inge Borgersen, who defends the trusted Statoil-employee, says straight out that his opinion is that the case against his client is not even close to resemble the corruption.
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