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The audit committee will receive an overview of the cases in which Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt was disqualified as a result of the man’s stock trading. -Almost impossible, she answers.
Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (AP).
view morePublished: 26/09/2023 13:16
This is evident from a letter answering a number of follow-up questions that the control committee sent to various ministers in the cabinet on September 14 about the jurisdictional cases.
The committee asked Huitfeldt three follow-up questions about how she assessed and handled her competency on a case-by-case basis.
The committee wants to know, among other things, what advice she has received regarding her husband’s share positions and requests a list of which decisions the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been involved in in which she now considers herself incompetent.
In the response letter, Huitfeldt states that in that case one would have to make “a significant number of decisions,” including those that may have called her competency into question.
– I note that Huitfeldt does not want to provide a complete overview of the matters in which she may have been incompetent. We have to look at how to deal with this, says Mayor Grunde Almeland to NTB.
No overview
– It will be a virtually impossible task to identify all relevant decisions and their possible connections to my husband’s individual stock transactions, writes Huitfeldt.
The letter contains neither a summary of decisions nor share transactions, despite the fact that it has previously become clear that Huitfeldt has been incompetent in a number of matters. In its questions, the Audit Committee explicitly asks for “an overview of all decisions in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been involved and in which she has been incompetent”.
The Control and Constitution Committee will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss what should be done next in these cases.
– The most important thing for the Liberal Party is that the control committee, by handling the integrity cases, contributes to restoring people’s trust in politicians. Transparency and orderly processes in which politicians’ self-interests do not prevail are absolutely essential for the functioning of our democracy, says Almeland.
The committee also wonders why the minister was not informed of her husband’s shareholdings, while it has been customary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a number of years for the minister to report on shareholdings and about changes to it later. as well as the rules in the Political Management Handbook.
100 stock transactions
The news became known at the end of August when Huitfeldt herself came out and apologized for not becoming familiar with her husband’s stock trading during her ministry.
She then estimated that her husband Ola Flem had made around 100 trades in around 40 stocks since October 2021. She stated that she had asked the ministry to freeze all activities that had direct or indirect contact with these companies.
The State Department has also requested a review of the case from the Justice Department’s Legal Department and Emergency Preparedness. The conclusion that she had handled this wrong.
The companies include the Kongsberg Group, the airline Norwegian and several salmon companies. Huitfeldt emphatically emphasizes that she was not aware of her husband’s stock trading and that she did not provide him with illegal insider information in any case.
– This is a criminal offense to talk about, so of course I won’t do it, she said to NRK on August 31.
Huitfeldt has no record of any instances in which she was disqualified
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