Christer Tromsdal (54) must appear in the Oslo District Court in mid-November this year, charged with threats against two other men. – He does not plead guilty, says Tromsdal’s defender, Karl Nicolai Vogt Skjerdal, to news. The two men have been acquaintances from Tromsdal, police attorney Maren Myklebust Moe of the Oslo police tells news. – The case concerns two cases of threats against two different people who have been acquaintances of the defendant who allegedly owed him money, says Moe. “You’re done…” Tromsdal is said to have sent threatening messages to a man who owed him money over several months in the spring of 2022. “You’ll pay anyway and bleed”, “You’re done…” and “you’ll end up in a wheelchair before Christmas” are some of the threats described in the indictment. Christer Tromsdal in court in 2020 in connection with the fact that he was accused of having hired torpedoes to injure a fellow judge in a criminal case in 2012. He was acquitted of this. Photo: Ola Mjaaland / news In addition, he allegedly threatened another man who also allegedly owed him money in January this year. “See you bloody fool. You pay me BEFORE the weekend. There are NO threats here. I guarantee is hell for you, [person] and [person] If YOU don’t fix everything,” Tromsdal wrote to this man, according to the indictment. news has removed the names of third parties mentioned in the threat. Tromsdal is prosecuted under Section 263 of the Criminal Code for threats, which carries a penalty of imprisonment for up to one year. More interrogations – In all cases, threats in isolation are serious, and apt to cause fear in those who are recipients, says police attorney Moe. She will take the case to court in November. For the sake of the court case, she does not want to go into what the police believe is the background to the threats. – We are aware of a possible background for the threats, and this will be clarified during the main hearing, says Moe. Christer Tromsdal on his way to the Oslo district court in 2007 to testify in a case. Photo: Morten Holm / SCANPIX Some of the threats were also made verbally, according to the indictment. Moe will not comment on how the police believe this should have taken place. Nor can she say how much money Tromsdal believes the two men have owed him. – A number of interviews have been conducted and documentation obtained which is the basis for the indictment, says Moe, and explains that this applies to text messages, among other things. – Experiencing it as real threats Police attorney Moe says that there have been no appointed defense lawyers for the two victims. One of the aggrieved parties has nevertheless engaged Jorunn Hegle Hovda as his assistance lawyer on his own. Hovda tells news that her client finds the situation burdensome. – He contacted me because he has been exposed to serious threats and is worried about an impending main hearing and about appearing in court. He experiences them as real threats. According to the indictment, Tromsdal wrote messages to Hovda’s client that he had to remember “to lie with one eye open tonight”. Hovda has no comment on Tromsdal’s belief that her client owes him money. Former criminal conviction Christer Tromsdal has a previous criminal conviction. In 2004, he was convicted of spreading misleading information to lure investors into a company. In 2005, he was convicted of influencing witnesses in a criminal case against an investment company in which he was a co-owner. In 2020, Tromsdal was acquitted in the Borgarting Court of Appeal for having hired torpedoes to injure a fellow judge in a criminal case in 2012. On the other hand, he has also helped the police. news Brennpunkt revealed in 2004 that Tromsdal acted as a police informant during the investigation of the NOKAS robbery. The police wanted his help in finding the proceeds of the robbery. Tromsdal later claimed that the informant job had nothing to do with the NOKAS robbery. In December 2004, he was shot in the knee by a known torpedo while he was sitting in a car at Frogner. Tromsdal has claimed that the incident had nothing to do with his role as an informant. Tip news’s crime group: Do you have information about this case or other crime cases? Contact news’s crime group. You can tip us off by e-mail or through news’s encrypted notification service. Here you can tip us anonymously. We also treat all tips confidentially, in line with the Vær varsom poster’s rules on source protection.
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