– We believe that a new follow-up case and a hearing are needed to get clarity in the case and calm around the conclusions, SV leader Audun Lysbakken told VG.
This week he told commission members from other parties that he believes a new hearing is needed.
– This case is so bad that the Storting can’t let it go. Over and over it was promised that all the stones would be turned over. But there is too much uncertainty as to whether it actually happened, Lysbakken tells the paper.
It was in the autumn of 2019 that it became known that several Norwegians had been punished, many with prison sentences, because Nav and the Norwegian courts misapplied social security rules. Several lawyers believe the scandal could have been avoided if the conclusions of the 2014 NAV report, which the Audit Committee did not receive, had been known.
The report found that refusing people to take social security with them abroad violated the EEA agreement, but that the leeway could be used to make exceptions, the paper said.
The monitoring committee has repeatedly questioned Labor Minister Marte Mjøs Persen (AP) about the report and how it was followed up. You indicated that these were issues that had been worked on under the previous government.
Lysbakken believes Persen has not answered well enough and wants a new hearing.
