One question occurred among the journalists at the press conference of the ministry of defense:
How long do the director?
Defence minister Trine Team (S) holds: namely, his hand over his head of department, Thomas Ahrenkiel, in the scandal of the lack of control and fraud in the defense department Ejendomsstyrelse, FES.
chief executive of the ministry of defense, head of department, Thomas Ahrenkiel, was already 4. november informed that The auditor general had discovered full-scale fraud in the FES. But he did not read the e-mail, he explains.
by Contrast, fluctuates Trine Team to the sword over two lower-ranking managers in the Defense: the Director, FES, Hans J. Høyer, be exempted from service, and a koncernstyringsdirektør in the department, Per Pugholm Olsen, transferred to another service.
“I no longer trust the executive director in the uk continental shelf. He is exempt from service, and there will be appointed a new director as soon as possible,” says Trine Team, who also informs that there will be a kulegravning of procurement in the entire Defence area.
“There is talk about poor file handling from one end to the other,” says Trine Team.
Per Pugholm Olsen was in charge of the team from the ministry of Defence, which is sent to Hjørring, where the agency is located, to investigate the matter. Road crew is continuing its work with a new leader.
Mr Thomas Ahrenkiel has over of the Trine Team in an attention-grabbing statement stressed that he should have informed the minister about the case in the past.
“The decisions I have taken are taken on the basis of the statement. I will not deny that there may be additional consequences later, if there is additional information,” says Trine Team.
Has the director does not have an interest to present the case in a positive light for themselves?
“the Director has not written the statement himself. The parties involved at the manager-level have been involved. I have no reason to doubt what it says in the statement.”
What do you think about that he didn’t read that email?
“We can all come to to overlook an email. But there has been a chief under him, who had full knowledge about the case without disclosing the information. I have to assess the matter on the information I have now. And I do not mean that the arrow is pointing at the director,” says Trine Team.
‘I must, in the light of the statement conclude that you should have been informed about the case significantly earlier than it actually happened,’ writes mr Thomas Ahrenkiel to the minister.
‘You were thus the first of the 4. december 2019 on the evening of informed about a case, as you rightfully should have been informed of, in connection with the fact that you joined as minister of defence.’
‘And that your predecessor should have been informed already as to The auditor general in april 2019 oriented department that received a request from the whistleblower. It is undoubtedly that there is an error from the departmental page. It is my responsibility to ensure that you are informed in a timely manner, and I very much regret the departmental error in this case,’ apologize Thomas Ahrenkiel in the letter to the minister.
“Taxpayers start to feel to laugh,” sounds from Sf’s defense, Anne Valentina Berthelsen, after the press conference about the scandal in FES.
Both the director of the FES, as well as koncernstyringsdirektøren has been tjenestefritagelse.
But now the Trine Team answer critical questions about the scandal. It must be under a consultation on Thursday morning at Christiansborg.
It is the government’s supporting parties from the SF and Enhedslisten, who want answers from the minister on a number of critical issues.
“We would like to know, what person to start with has been informed on the matter. The case has only just begun,” says Anne Valentina Berthelsen.
on Tuesday evening forsvarsordførerne called to a meeting with the minister.
The radical defense Martin Lidegaard writes on Facebook:
“Here we are, step by step, review what there were looking forward to yet information about public funds in the millions. The whole affair makes me both angry and sad. It’s not just about money. It’s about trust, and it hits there, where it makes most evil; our confidence in our own system and its own institutions – and thus, ultimately, our trust in each other.”
Prime minister Mette Frederiksen said on the matter in with the debate in the Danish Parliament in response to a question from the Liberal party chairman, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen:
“I think that there is a need to deepen. How we so exactly does it, I would very much like to discuss. I understand that the public accounts committee has the same considerations to discuss matters that go on across the ministries,” she said.
