FALK NEWSLETTER 01/2000 (March 2000)

WHAT'S NEW !
EXIT BONDEVIK!

Another submissive Prime Minister?

JENS STOLTENBERG from the Norwegian Labor Party succeeded Kjell Magne Bondevik as Prime Minister for Norway as of 12.00 hours on the day of March 17th, year 2000.

As soon as Stoltenberg's cabinet has taken charge FALK International will, as to any new Cabinet and independent of the Cabinet's political platform (left or right wing), renew the request for investigation of the "Kielland" disaster.

On March 27th 2000, twenty ( 20) years have passed since 123 people were killed in a murderish act on the Ekofisk field in the North Sea, among them 2 US and 27 UK citizens. The official investigation commission stated the cause of the disaster to be a fatigue failure in one of the bracings on the rig. FALK International is bringing to public knowledge that the commission supressed important information from public knowledge. Such information focusing on the disaster to be caused by sabotage by the use of explosives in another bracing adjacent to the bracing with the fatigue crack.

Jens Stoltenberg's father Thorvald Stoltenberg was part of the Cabinet in charge in 1980 when such information was surpressed. Prime Minister for Norway at the time was Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland. Mrs Hanne Harlem, sister to Gro Harlem Brundtland is appointed Minister of Justice in Jens Stoltenbergs Cabinet. In her second term as Prime Minister for Norway Mrs Brundtland in summer 1987 neglected to present before the late King Olav V of Norway an appeal from FALK International's president Ole Ostlund to resume investigation of the "Kielland" case. Mr Ostlund had obtained technical evidence including metallurgical testing of material from "Kielland" proving the cause of the disaster to be sabotage by act of explosives. Mr. Ole Ostlund was in April 1987 given the honor of presenting the case in audience for the King Olav.

Due to Mrs Brundtland and her Cabinets negligence Mr. Ostlund returned from Houston, Texas to Norway, in order to persue this matter of great importance for Norway and the Norwegian people, postponing promotion of his own business.

Since then Mr. Ostlund has been advocating for obtaining support for reopening the case inside and outside Norway, and new investigation to take place by Norwegian Police authorities in cooperation with experts fom FBI and Scotland Yard. The future remains to be seen....................

E-mail to the Office of Prime Minister og Norway, of March 18. 2000
See. also FALK International Newsletter 02/98

Den norske Bank - DnB involvement?
The same fall Mr. Ostlund's bank connection in Norway closed his and his Company's line of credit . Mr Ostlund and his business experienced at the same time boycot in Norway and in March 1988 Mr. Ostlund had no other option than asking for bankruptcy proceedings.

Mr Ostlund's banc connection at the time was "Den norske Creditbank" (DnC), today named "Den norske Bank" (DnB) which in the early ninethies became State controlled. Mr. Ostlund is holding DnB financially responsible for his and his Norwegian Company, O.C.Ostund A/S, ecconomical failure. The trustee who later was disclosed as a former DnC contracted lawyer sold out Mr Ostlund's interest, among others his Company's owner interest in Ila Stålindustri A/S, a mechanical workshop in Trondheim for "nothing". The trustee neglected also to follow true the Company's law suit against Stolt Nilsen Seaway for breach of contract on the uprighting of "Kielland" in 1983. Both matters of ecconomical value tenfolds Mr. Ostlund and his Company's credit exposure to DnC.

Managing Director Mr. Jannik Linbæk
The present Managing Director of DnB is Jannik Lindbæk, former Managing Director of Storebrand at the time of the "Kielland" disaster in 1980. Lindbæk left Storebrand in 1985. His successor Jan Erik Langangen was a former Statoil Manager. Mr Lindbæk was recently elected as first President for the Norwegian Chapter of Transparency International. FALK International strongly disrecommend Mr. Lindbæk in this position. There is no way Mr. Lindbæk during his time as Managing Director of Storeband (Storebrand was the lead insurance company for "Kielland") could have missed the "explossion theory". What Mr. Lindbæk knew at what time remains to be known. Until such information is known to the public FALK International can put no faith in Mr Lindbæk nor Transparency International fighting corruption in Norway, ref FALK Newsletter 01/98

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