Erna Solberg’s husband, Sindre Finnes, made 3,650 different stock trades while Solberg was prime minister. He kept his dealings hidden from the world around him and his wife. – I have been incompetent in matters I have dealt with when I was prime minister, Solberg said during the press conference about her husband’s stock trading. – Breach of trust is always difficult, and especially difficult in a family and a marriage, said Erna Solberg when she held a press conference about her husband’s share trading. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB On 1 September, the business newspaper E24 asked Finnes for an overview of his stock transactions. Just over two weeks later, the list was ready. In the meantime there were local elections. The overview could come sooner. This is the opinion of Mads Johannessen, who is an investment economist at Nordnet. – It is easy to retrieve transaction history from all trades that have been carried out. – Also from years ago? – Yes, it is entirely possible. Mads Johannesen, investment economist at Nordnet, says that retrieving transaction history is a simple matter. Photo: Nordnet He points, among other things, to the annual statement from VPS accounts. All purchases, sales and profits appear there. – It is possible to retrieve information on the day. It will say quite immediately. But with many shops it naturally takes some time. Nordea’s investment director, Robert Næss, tells VG that it is easy to create an overview of share traders. – If we are talking about your own trades, all you have to do is go online and log in to the platform you trade with, and then you will get the overview. Here is the timeline E24 wrote about Sindre Finnes’ share trading during the period when Erna Solberg was prime minister. E24 asked for a complete overview of Finnes’ share trading. E24 writes once again about Finnes’ share trading in the last four months of Solberg’s government period. an e-mail the Prime Minister’s office sent to Finnes just before Solberg became prime minister. They advised him not to trade shares in the short term because it would make it difficult for Solberg to keep track of them. E24 asks Solberg to publish an overview of Finnes’s transactions. Solberg says that she has asked Finnes to create an overview. E24 publishes more information about Finnes’ share deals. E24 publishes E24 even more information about Finnes’s deals. Erna Solberg presents a complete overview of the 3,650 share transactions for Finnes. Show more – Extract manually news has sent the allegations to Finnes. He hasn’t answered. Høgre’s press manager, Cato Husabø Fossen, wrote in an e-mail to news: – The total extent of Sindre Finnes’ share trading was unknown to anyone in Høgre until Wednesday 13 September. Sindre then handed over an overview to Erna, which her closest colleagues also had access to. – According to him, the time it took Finnes to prepare the overview reflects that there has been very extensive trading, over many years and from several different accounts, which he has spent time putting together. Among other things, his VPS account only goes back to 2019, all information from before this has been extracted manually from the bank and settlement papers, writes Fossen further. Press manager in Høgre, Cato Husabø Fossen, together with party leader Erna Solberg. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB After E24 wrote about Finnes’ stock traders, they asked for a complete overview. – It took two weeks from the time E24 listed Finnes’ share traders, until it became public. What do you think about it? – It turned out yesterday that this list was very extensive. That it takes some time to prepare a list of 3,600 transactions, I can also have some understanding of that, replies E24 editor Lars Håkon Grønning. Lars Håkon Grønning, editor-in-chief of E24. Photo: Jørgen Braastad / E24 – Conspiratorial The fact that the list only became public after the election has created speculation in social media. The list of share deals should perhaps appear in the media before the election, LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik has stated to news. She points at the media. – In that case, it is problematic if someone has access to information and has not let it come out considering that we are faced with a choice. I think this is serious, and I hope that the media will also take it upon themselves and follow exactly that. LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik. Photo: Tom Balgaard / news – I perceive it as a gross and serious speculation, which I am surprised that the LO leader comes up with. That’s what the editor-in-chief of E24 says. – I react quite strongly to someone without having any factual basis to use such strong words in the direction that the media will have deliberately withheld this until after the election, says Grønning. Aftenposten’s editor-in-chief, Trine Eilertsen. Photo: Martin HW Zondag / news Aftenposten editor Trine Eilertsen says she was shocked when she heard the announcement from Hessen Følsvik. – Here is one of Norway’s most powerful women, picking up a conspiracy theory that has been circulating on social media for a day now. I expect the LO leader to either apologize or tell me what she is basing this on, says Eilertsen. LO has not responded to news’s request for a comment.
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