Storting representative Hege Haukeland Liadal in the Labor Party has been charged with gross fraud. Photo: Jon Olav Nesvold / NTB
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Storting representative Hege Haukeland Liadal (Labor Party) has been charged with gross fraud against the Storting.
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It appears in a press release from the Oslo Public Prosecutor’s Office, which states that the indictment covers 61 travel invoices submitted in the period September 2016 – October 2018.
In total, the indictment applies to an amount of just over NOK 115,000.
The press release from the public prosecutor further states:
“Charges have been brought for intentional gross fraud, as the prosecuting authority believes that Liadal knew that the travel invoices contained incorrect information and that she submitted them in order to receive payments from the Storting which she knew she was not entitled to. Furthermore, proof can be provided for this. Liadal has not pleaded guilty to the charges.
Intentional fraud has a penalty of six years.
—-Storting representative Hege Haukeland Liadal in the Labor Party is said to have known that the travel invoices contained errors, according to public prosecutor Monica Krag Pettersen at the Oslo Public Prosecutor’s Office. Photo: PETER MYDSKE
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Liadal was reported by the Storting in April 2019, after Aftenposten revealed that she had been for at least four years had submitted false travel invoices to the Storting.
The case has been with the police for 17 months after the Storting reported the Storting representative. Liadal has all the way expressed that she did not do it on purpose, but that it is about mistakes and misunderstandings.
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