– No doors have closed due to incorrect selection. The challenge has been doors that should have been open, that have been bolted back, writes lawyer Sigurd Klomsæt in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
Monday morning he confirmed to Dagbladet that his collaboration with the convicted corruption ex-policeman Eirik Jensen has ended, four months after he took over for Jensen’s longtime lawyer John Christian Elden. The new main lawyer in the case is Farid Bouras at Elden Advokatfirma.
Later that day, Jensen’s cohabitant, Ragna Lise Vikre, gave the following explanation of the decision to Dagbladet.
– The decision for the change of lawyer was made as a result of what we believe are tactical wrong choices from Klomsæt.
Klomsæt contented himself on Monday afternoon with acknowledging that the criticism was unknown to him.
Now he is retaliating. At the same time, he sharply criticizes the Bureau of Investigation – which rejects the accusations.
Change lawyer: – Would be acquitted
– Familiar reasons
Klomsæt emphasizes that he has not previously been made aware of Vikre’s views.
– The comment from Ragna Lise Vikre about tactical mistakes she herself must elaborate further, I have no prerequisites to know what she puts in it, and it has not been communicated to me either.
The lawyer writes this in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
– I relate to the fact that I was informed on Saturday afternoon that Eirik Jensen for family reasons wanted to end my defense assignment. Of course, I have no problem accepting that, the client is always free to choose his defender at any time.
– Not impressed
– Bolted again
Vikre claimed on Monday that the climate of cooperation within the work on Jensen’s case led to “important doors closing”, and that “inquiries and requests for important documents stopped”.
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As a consequence of this, Jensen had to reconsider the choice of lawyer, according to the cohabitant. He therefore found that it was not appropriate to continue the collaboration.
This does not correspond to Klomsæt’s opinion. He would rather point the finger at the Special Unit for Police Affairs.
Eirik Jensen about the Elden wreckage
Kicks against the Special Unit
The work on a request for reopening was on schedule to be submitted before 1 July 2021, according to Klomsæt.
– But due to massive opposition from the Bureau of Investigation against handing over case documents that Eirik Jensen is entitled to, the self-imposed deadline had to be postponed.
REJECTS CRITICISM: The special unit’s chief Terje Nybø, here as police chief in Asker and Børum in 2019. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB
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Terje Nybøe, head of the Bureau of Investigation, rejects the criticism.
– It is a statement we do not recognize ourselves in. We have had a lot of dialogue with him about access to case documents, and he has received a lot. How he characterizes the dialogue with us is at his expense, but we do not in any way express “massive resistance”. On the contrary, we have gone to great lengths to provide insight in a responsible way, he says to Dagbladet.
– Convicted
On Monday, Klomsæt wrote in a statement to Dagbladet that he is convinced that Jensen would be acquitted with a “well-prepared case”.
During the three and a half months I have been defending Eirik Jensen, my team and I have uncovered so many facts that confirm that Jensen was wrongly convicted due to the evaluation of evidence that took place in court, that I am convinced that the request for reopening in the Commission would have arrived, he writes now.
Jensen stayed last year sentenced to 21 years in prison for gross corruption and drug trafficking. He denies criminal guilt, and in November the Supreme Court rejected Jensen’s appeal.
In May, the former police officer complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Bouras informed Dagbladet on Monday that he will in the future, among other things, look at whether there is a basis for supplementing the complaint to the EMD.
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