Solberg’s husband Sindre Finnes made more than 3,600 stock transactions while Solberg was prime minister from 2013 to 2021. Why was the then prime minister unable to catch the transactions that disqualified her in several cases? Solberg has explained in several interviews with news that she was led astray by her husband: She was unable to grasp the extent because Finnes is said to have changed his share portfolio at the end of each year, so that it looked roughly the same in the Shareholders’ Register. The shareholder register is public, and shows the shares Norwegians own at the end of each year. Solberg still stands by the explanation: – The shareholder register has shown that he has ownership in the same companies from year to year, Solberg repeats in an interview with news in Trondheim on Thursday. – Then there has been an increase in some of those companies, and then there have been sales in some other companies. – It is within what I said. I never said it was exactly the same, I said it was the same companies that we already followed with questions about whether we could end up in a disqualification situation. Check the changes But a review of the register year by year shows that there were significant changes in the husband’s share portfolio between 2014 and 2020. Here you can see for yourself how the portfolio could change in the register that Solberg had access to: Sindre Finnes’ share holdings at the end of 2017 Photo: Screen dump from aksjeeiere.no Sindre Finnes’ share holdings at the end of 2018. Photo: Screen dump from aksieeiere.no Sindre Finnes’ share holdings at the end of 2019. Photo: SCREEN DUMP FROM AKSJEEIERE.NO Sindre Finnes’ share holdings at the end of 2020. Photo : Screenshot from aksieeiere.no From, for example, 2014 to 2015, it appears that Finnes has sold its shares in Odfjell Drilling, Seadrill, Western Bulk and Norwegian Energy Company. He has also sold himself a little up or down in the companies BW LPG, Hydro, Q-Free and Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA. He has also bought shares in new companies, such as Bulk Invest, Skandiabanken and Nordic Nanovector. SOMEWHAT SIMILAR: Erna Solberg maintains that the register showed that the portfolio was the same from year to year. Photo: Morten Karlsen / news – Have you entered the shareholder register yourself and looked, and if so how often? – No, but we have seen that the overview has been more or less correct. So I can’t remember if we have done it every single year. – But the starting point was that the shareholder register showed the same companies that we originally brought in, and that he left a number of companies linked to the information provided to the Prime Minister’s office both in 2014 and in 2017. – MDG’s deputy chairman slept during the hour Ingrid Liland believes Solberg should have picked up on the changes as prime minister. – There is more and more evidence that Erna has slept through the hours during her years as prime minister. Nobody expects her to have a full overview of her husband’s share portfolio, but the lack of vigilance she shows here casts great doubt on her judgement, she says to news: – In any case, it is difficult for people to trust her now. Ingrid Liland is deputy chairman of MDG, and believes Erna Solberg has taken the responsibility of checking her husband’s share information too lightly. Photo: Mari Reisjå / news He said he was going out – the register shows that he stayed In 2017, Finnes notified the Prime Minister’s office that he was in the process of transferring most of the shares to a mutual fund. The shareholder register, however, shows that the information he provided is incorrect. At the end of 2017, the Prime Minister’s husband was registered as the owner of shares in Schibsted, Marine Harvest, Independent Tankers Corporation LT, Western Bulk Chartering, Hydro, Blueye Robotics and Wallenius Wilhelmsen. Solberg has explained that she was unable to see any changes while she was prime minister from 2013 to 2021. But not only was the shareholder register changed. During Erna Solberg’s term as prime minister, there have also been several media cases related to Sindre Finnes’ share dealings. Already in 2014, news wrote that Finnes had shares in Hydro. Then Finnes replied that “There are no regulations for me to provide that information.” In September 2017, Dagbladet wrote that Sindre Finnes had shares with a value of approximately NOK 1.5 million in 18 different companies. The largest single entry was in the technology company Q-Free. The shareholder register shows that Finnes sold out of the company at the end of 2017. He also confirmed this to Dagbladet in 2019: – I sold out several times in 2017. It was after an overall assessment, one of the elements was the mention of the case, said Exists.
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Solberg is adamant that the share portfolio was the same – changed from year to year – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
