Watch the entire Stavrum & Eikeland podcast with Arvid Sjødin here:
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Arvid Sjødin, Viggo Kristiansen’s lawyer and cousin of Birgitte Tengs, is “Name of the Year” in Nettavisen. His fight for justice in the two cases has no parallel in Norwegian legal history.
Kristiansen was acquitted of the Baneheia murders after being wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years, while Birgitte Tengs’ cousin was acquitted of his pending compensation claim for nearly 25 years after being acquitted of murder in 1998.
Now Sjødin is shouting out a warning, that there are many innocent people in Norwegian prisons today.
– We have no legal certainty in Norway, says Sjødin, when he visits the Stavrum & Eikeland podcast.
– There are many innocent people in Norwegian prisons today, he continues.
See his full statement of concern to the Norwegian judiciary here:
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This is how the cousin was deceived
Sjødin details how he believes he was deceived by the police in the murder case against Birgitte Teng’s cousin, which led to the cousin being convicted by the district court in 1997, and then acquitted by the appeal court the following year.
– I was deceived, says Sjødin.
Watch Sjødin tell how his cousin was tricked here:
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This is how Viggo Kristiansen got involved in the Baneheia murders
In 2000, there was the brutal murder of two girls in Baneheia in Kristiansand where Jan Helge Andersen admitted one and served time for it. For over 20 years, Viggo Kristiansen has been seen as the leading man.
Watch Sjødin explain how Jan Helge Andersen and the police dragged Viggo Kristiansen into the Baneheia murders:
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That’s why Sjødin trusts Kristiansen and his cousin
The lawyer has regular contact with his clients. To Stavrum & Eikeland, she explains why the two will do well later in her life.
Look at it:
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Sjødin sacrificed both his house and several tens of millions of kroner in lost earnings to prove the judicial killings.
– You can’t just put it away, says Sjødin.
At Stavrum & Eikeland, he tells why he took on demanding assignments, about the dirty work of the police and why he never learns, about the bias of the media, about how the Reintegration Commission can be reorganized so that it works and why the relatives of those killed fight to forgive the acquitted.
The next judicial killing
Sjødin also talks about the next big judicial killing he will have filmed.
– The Per Orderud case is a clear judicial killing, says Sjødin.
Watch him explain why here:
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Guests included former Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H), Labor Party leader and current Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, NRK’s Fredrik Solvang, the influencer Linnéa Myhre, the father of athletics Gjert Ingebrigtsen, financier Knut Brundtland, shipowner Herbjørn Hansson , as well as investors such as Jens Ulltveit-Moe, Jan Petter Sissener, Kristian Adolfsen, Johan H. Andresen, Reynir Indahl, politician Nestor Gudmund Hernes, Tinder girl Cecilie Fjellhøy, oil analyst Jarand Rystad, football legend Jan Åge Fjørtoft, Yara CEO Svein Tore Holsether, Hydro CEO Hilde Merete Aasheim, Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke, Shabana Rehman , Trond Giske, Hadia Tajik, Ingebrigt Steen Jensen, investor Arne Fredly, just to name a few.
