Gjermund Cappelen is released from prison – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country

In June 2020, Cappelen was sentenced to 13 years in prison for gross corruption and drug smuggling. The hashish smuggler is now out because he has completed at least two thirds of his sentence. It was Nettavisen that mentioned the case first. – In need of peace Gjermund Cappelen’s lawyer, Kaja de Vibe Malling, says in an e-mail to news that Cappelen does not wish to be interviewed in connection with the release. – In the future, he needs peace, for his own part and not least for his family, writes the lawyer. In the e-mail, she writes, among other things, that Cappelen does not want publicity for the sake of the children. “His minor children have been exposed to a lot of pressure right from the arrest until today,” she writes. “It is important that he gets time to re-establish himself in society, and there is reason to believe that media coverage in connection with his release will only make the process he and his family now have to go through more difficult,” she writes further. 13 years in prison Cappelen was arrested in a secret operation in December 2013 in connection with the case where the policeman Erik Jensen was sentenced to 21 years in prison for gross corruption and drug crime. Only in June 2020 was he sentenced in the Borgarting Court of Appeal to 13 years in prison for gross corruption on the importation of 16.7 tonnes of hashish, after having first been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the district court three years earlier. Normally, a punishment for such serious drug offenses would result in a sentence of 21 years in prison, but Cappelen received an eight-year sentence reduction because he cooperated with the police. Cappelen has admitted that he helped smuggle tons of hash into Norway since the beginning of the 1990s and has explained that former police chief Eirik Jensen made it possible for him to avoid being caught by the police. Nettavisen writes that the 56-year-old was released from Berg prison in Tønsberg, which is a low-security prison.



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