The verdict in the Supreme Court was handed down on Thursday and was announced in a press release on Friday. The re-recording commission has requested access to audio recordings from explanations about the so-called plane drop case given by Eirik Jensen and Gjermund Cappelen. The background is that the commission is currently investigating reopening petitions from several of those who were convicted in the case in the 1990s. The convicts claim that the importation of drugs from the Netherlands to Norway in 1993 was illegally provoked by a former police officer in collaboration with his informant, and that the convicts in the airdrop case should therefore have been acquitted. Secrecy forever The explanations from Jensen and Cappelen about the plane drop case were given during the criminal case against them in 2019-2020. These parts of the explanations were given behind closed doors with orders of permanent secrecy. Eirik Jensen on his way to court on 20 May 2019. Photo: Cicilie S. Andersen / news The Borgarting Court of Appeal rejected the request for access and referred to the extradition ban in the Criminal Procedure Act § 28, fourth paragraph, second sentence. Several of those convicted in the airdrop case appealed the Court of Appeal’s decision to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has come to the conclusion that the prohibition in the Criminal Procedure Act § 28, fourth paragraph, second sentence, is not an obstacle to giving the Re-entry Commission access to this type of classified material. AIRPLANE DROP: In 1993, several kilograms of amphetamine were dropped from a plane at a pond near Lillesand. The case attracted attention. The police were ready and filmed the drug smuggling. Among those convicted Hilmar Bertheussen and Gunnar Evertsen are among several who were convicted in the plane drop case, when 13 kg of amphetamine was released from a small plane at Lillesand in 1993. The police were in hiding and filmed them by the pond. The two believe the police and Eirik Jensen, in collaboration with drug convict Gjermund Cappelen, lured them into committing a criminal act they would not otherwise have committed. – I am convinced that we are exposed to an illegal police provocation. It is very difficult to prove, but something came out in the trial against Eirik Jensen and Gjermund Cappelen, Bertheussen has previously said about the case. Gunnar Evertsen is also said to have notified Kripos in 2010 that Cappelen had a pass from the police. Together with Bertheussen, he recorded the conversation with Kripos. Hilmar Bertheussen does not hide his past as a convicted drug trafficker when he meets fellow villagers in Vardø. Photo: Knut-Sverre Horn / news The principle of truth The Supreme Court emphasizes that different considerations are opposed to each other, and attaches great importance to the consideration of the most trust-inspiring processing of reopening requests. It “speaks strongly for giving the commission access”, writes the Supreme Court. The first voter in the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen, writes, among other things, this in the judgment: “The Re-admission Commission’s special responsibility in the criminal proceedings apparatus helps to safeguard the material truth principle, which is fundamental in a rule of law.” The other four Supreme Court judges who took part in the hearing of the case agreed with the first voter.
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The re-recording commission gets access to audio recordings in the plane drop case – news Troms and Finnmark
