5 February 2024 at 15:02 Oddmund Hoel (Sp) admits cheating to get more money Research and Higher Education Minister Oddmund Hoel admits to VG that he overreported the number of members in Norsk Målungdom at the start of the 90s. The minister says to the newspaper that he did it to get more state aid. Hoel was the day-to-day leader of the organization at the time. – It shouldn’t have happened, says Hoel to VG. He was responsible for submitting applications for state support, and it was then that he reported more members than the organization actually had. – Was it deliberate? – Yes, I did that deliberately, replies the minister. It was Firda and Nettavisen that first mentioned the membership fraud. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is said to have been informed of the case before Holen was appointed as minister. The Prime Minister’s office (SMK) wrote in an e-mail to news that they were informed about this case: – It was also in the conversation Oddmund Hoel had with the chief of staff at SMK before he became a minister. We do not go into detail about what assessment they have made in the conversation: – The Prime Minister has confidence in Oddmund Hoel, they write further.
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