Former bank director Thor Bang bequeathed several properties to former Progress Party leader Siv Jensen, according to VG’s information. Her predecessor Carl I. Hagen confirms that he inherits a sum of money.
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Thor Bang died in March, aged 97. The former bank director owned both a house in Oslo’s most exclusive residential area Holmenkollen and a property on the car-free summer paradise Veierland in Færder municipality.
In Holmenkollen, the detached houses cost eight figures.
VG knows that Carl I. Hagen was the sole heir to the properties, from the 1990s until 2015.
Then he was replaced with the current heir, according to VG’s information: then FRP leader Siv Jensen.
According to Avisa Oslo, it is the sale of these properties that gives Jensen a solid amount in inheritance. The newspaper writes that it is about 25 million kroner, but this is not confirmed by Jensen himself.
–Bang had no children, but another family: nieces and nephews, who are not provided with anything, as far as VG knows.
In 2020, he was listed with 910,300 kroner in income and almost 2.2 million kroner in wealth in the tax lists.
Jensen will not comment on the case to VG. She refers to executor Jan-Erik Sverre in the law firm Kvale.
–Not wanted public interest
– What I can confirm is that I am a testator for Thor Bang, Sverre says to VG.
Thor Bang was of the opinion that he believed that his dispositions had no public interest. He was clear that I should not contribute to the public about his testamentary dispositions, so I do not want to say much more than that to respect the wishes of the deceased.
Sverre says that he knew Bang as an interesting person.
– I experienced him as an up-and-coming man.
Former Supreme Court Justice Carsten Smiths described Bang as “extremely knowledgeable” and “emphatically conservative” to Advokatbladet i 2013.
–Carl and Eli inherit
Carl I. Hagen confirms to VG that he and his wife Eli have inherited a sum of money from Bang.
– I have been made aware that I will receive an appreciation, and I appreciate that.
The former FRP leader does not want to say anything about the size of the inheritance, but says it is about two equal amounts to him his wife Eli.
– How did you get to know him?
– I first met him in connection with an assembly 30-40 years ago. He was a member of the party and we have had a number of conversations over the years. He agreed with me politically and was a little impressed with what I was doing when I was party leader.
Both Jensen and Hagen, as party leaders in Frp, have worked for a sharp reduction in taxes and fees.
According to Avisa Oslo, Hagen will inherit 250,000 kroner from Bang.
–Old bank manager
Bang was bank director from the end of the 1950s until 1978. He then left, as a result of the banks being democratized by the Storting, where the shareholders became a minority in the supervisory board as the highest body.
He worked for Den norske Creditbank, the forerunner of DNB. After resigning as bank manager, he was an adviser to the bank for 12 years in international contexts.
Before his banking career, he worked for 14 years as a fiscal policy adviser for the Conservative parliamentary group, according to an interview in Advokatbladet.
Former Supreme Court Justice Carsten Smith described Bang in 2013:
– Yes, of course I know Thor Bang. Extremely knowledgeable, formally elegant. Played a fairly significant role in Norwegian business and the public. Strongly conservative. I have met him a couple of times in debates. Generous to others in a debate, Smith told Advokatbladet.
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