– No, no. He has even said up his position and chosen to go to another company, ” says director of communications Severin Roald on E24s questions about the resignation has something to do with the matter that is rolled up in Bangladesh.
on Thursday, alerts Telenor that Vivek Sood, executive vice president for the Market in the Telenor group, has said up the post with effect from 23. December. He should have thanked yes to a job in another company.
Sood led the grameen phone in Bangladesh then Telenor-the company sponsored a controversial spesialpolitistyrke who is accused of serious violations of human rights.
Sood has been a part of Sigve break off inner circuit in Telenor. He was appointed as the director of marketing for the executive board in november 2015, and has previously headed Telenor’s operations in India.
Roald says that Sood resigned his position on Monday this week. The reason he resigns tomorrow, should be that he is going to a competitor. He must, however, through a six months long deleted.
He goes to a competitor, and then it is natural that he is leaving the company, ” says Roald.
– Given regelbruddene in Bangladesh, the short notice period and that he has been in office for only just over one year, do you understand the question?
– It here has no connection with the case in Bangladesh. Vivek Sood has even chosen to leave Telenor, and he goes to a competitor.
Telenor writes in an announcement that Gunnar Sellæg has been appointed as acting director of the Soods position. He comes from the job as director of Product and Innovation in the group.
– Gross violation of human rights
E24 wrote yesterday that the police force Telenor has sponsored, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), accused of serious human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and extra-judicial executions.
Telenor-sponsored spesialpoliti accused of kidnapping, torture and executions
The Hong Kong-based menneskerettighetsorganisasjonen the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) believes that telecom operators in Bangladesh have facilitated the offences through the sharing of personal data with the authorities.
grameen phone is the biggest your mobile phone carrier in the country.
RAB and other law enforcement purchase, and requires that telekommunikasjonsselskapene buy, digital technology that is used to spy on its own citizens, both civilians, the media, human rights groups and opposisjonspolitikere. Technology is used to gain access to private communications, and leading to the forced disappearances, extra-judicial executions, torture, and a variety of forms of abuse of human rights, ” says a representative for the organization, Ashrafuzzaman Zaman.
11 violations
Earlier this month be able to Today’s Business report that the chairman of the board Gunn Wærsted in Telenor would get rid of the ceo Sigve Brekke. The newspaper later wrote that it was elements from the break off past that Telenor head of Asia which was the cause of this.
After a considerable medietrykk enlightened Telenor that the company’s internal audit process had uncovered 11 violations of their own rules. This is the “compliance”cases, the corporate assembly refers to.
Among regelbruddene were among others the sponsorship of the military and police in Bangladesh, including the disputed elitestyrken the Rapid Action Battalion. These are accused of serious violations of human rights.
Both Gunn Wærsted and Sigve Brekke sitting – despite this – still in their positions. The two held a press conference in the middle of the month. The Telenor board of directors informs that the conditions in Asia have been treated, but that this treatment is now finished.
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