Previous Yara top is sentenced to seven years in prison – NRK

71-year-old was in a number of years the legal director of the Yara, and responsible for the company’s antikorrupsjonsarbeid.

Økokrim la in December down the assertion of prison in seven years in the appeal, after Wallace in the district court, was sentenced to prison for two years and six months.

Thus, the judgment in lagretten significantly more stringent than in the district court, and in line with straffepåstanden from Økokrim.

Lagretten type in rettsavgjørelsen that it not be assumed that it was Wallace who took the initiative to corruption – but that it can’t be proven who is behind.

Still can not get appreciable importance at sentencing, type lagmann Mette Jensen in the judgment.

Former ceo was acquitted in the court of appeal

Økokrims investigation started already in 2011, and the treatment of the district court in 2014 ended with four former top executives of gjødselselskapet Yara was sentenced to prison for gross corruption in connection with the company’s vikrsomhet in Libya and India.

Former ceo Thorleif Enger in Yara was sentenced to the strictest punishment of the defendant in the district court, but was later acquitted in the Borgarting court of appeal.

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But in the case before Borgarting court of appeal was only legal director Wallace condemned, while the former president and ceo Thorleif Enger and the directors Daniel Clauw and Tor Holba was acquitted of the charges

Corruption the four have been indicted for, has gone out on that Yara should have paid bribes to the sons of high-ranking officials in Libya and in India to gain entry in the markets.

– Serious korrupsjonssak ever

It attracted great attention as one of Norway’s most important industry leaders through the decades, Torleif Enger, was set on the ones in the dock of Økokrim in a case of gross corruption in Libya and India.

Yara-matter began to roll in 2011 when the company notified Økokrim of possible corruption linked to the company’s arrival in Libya.

the Inquiry to the Økokrim came after the newspaper DN had begun to dig into the circumstances surrounding the Yaras establishment in the country.

In January 2014 adopted Yara a fine of 295 million kroner from Økokrim for gross corruption in Libya, India and Russia, and the same day took Økokrim out the indictment against the four officers.

Yara has acknowledged the bribery of over 70 million.

the Prosecution has characterised the Yara case as the most serious korrupsjonssaken in Norway ever.

despite that, the case ended with a conviction in Norway.

the Case is perhaps the most serious korrupsjonssaken as is the judgment in the Uk when it comes to the size of the bestikkelsesbeløpet, because it is committed by a member of the executive management team and because it relates to bribery of high-ranking government officials in Libya and India, ” says førstestatsadvokat Marianne Djupesland at Økokrim in a comment.

She believes it is appropriate that lagretten has sharpened the punishment, because there is about two cases of gross corruption, which is punishable by up to ten years.