27.03.2009
Norwegian
Lawyer under investigation for serious crimes
The
Norwegian lawyer Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen
is under investigation for having committed extortion against a former
client.
After
almost two years of waiting it now seems that the public prosecutor in
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For
several years Aabø-Evensen was the enemy of the
infamous Amelia and Einar Riis.
In earlier years, while representing the Riis-family
in a law suit against Amelia Riis’ brother, the ship
owner Kristoffer Olsen, Aabø-Evensen
committed wrongdoings against the family and acted in the interest of the
counterparty. His actions were the sole reason why the family lost this case. This
is by the way not my conclusion but rather a conclusion of the words of the
judge who administered the case.
A few days
before the main hearing in that specific case, Aabø-Evensen
called for a meeting with me and the late Consul Riis.
In this very meeting he dropped his little weird bomb as he had decided to
build this damaging case on six hypotheses and not on the base of facts which
was the original sound plan.
We
protested, Einar loudly, but in vain. The lawyer left
the late Consul Riis and his wife with two
alternatives; either accept his plan or find a new lawyer! The old couple were
in duress. The main hearing was about to begin within days, and they felt they
had no choice but to show up in court and in the meantime try their best to
convince this lawyer that this plan was ludicrous and a solid plan to loose the
case. As the history can tell, they didn’t make it. The judge in charge had an
easy task when he was to pass his decision:
“A
hypothetical course of events can not establish a basis for actions for
damages”,
and the
case that had been living its own life in the Norwegian court system for some
16 years was lost by a single but all so predictable sentence. I filed a
complaint against
Especially
after this predictable disaster the late Consul Riis
considered Aabø-Evensen as a traitor aligned with the other lawyers (and Labour
Party-politicians) that allegedly had betrayed the family during the years.
Before Aabø-Evensen was kicked out by the Riis-family ha had sent off an uncompleted and halting
appeal on the lost case, thus he claimed that the Riis-family
were obliged to pay for this work, while the Riis-family
on the other hand refused as they considered that this lawyer had lost the case
by will and that nothing of what he was doing was in the interest of the
family. The Riis-family and Aabø-Evensen
thus ended up as counterparties in court several times.
As I have
described before, Amelia Riis settled the dispute
with this lawyer shortly after the murder of the late Consul Riis. The problem here is how this dispute was settled, and how it was settled is the reason
why I filed criminal charges against this Legal500 lawyer.
On
Here you can
read a transcript of a conversation between me and Amelia Riis (and listen to it while reading) which took place the day after
the settlement of
1) I had to
understand that this lawyer is very dangerous (which she underlined for me seven times during this short
conversation);
2) if she didn’t
settle the case, and paid him what he wanted (which was a lot more than he was
entitled to even if he had won the dispute), then this lawyer would drag me to
court and tell all sorts of bad things about me. This is extortion in its
simplest form. At this point I was Mrs. Riis in-house lawyer and co-partner in claims against the
Government and against Aabø-Evensen himself,
representing the family’s interests in court. By this act the lawyer was
forcing the old lady to settle by attacking her representative;
3) she
insisted that I should stay put and do nothing, otherwise the lawyer would do
some bad things with me;
4) she did
her very best to convince me that as long as I didn’t do anything the lawyer
wouldn’t do anything either.
5) the lawyer forced Mrs. Riis to
sign a Press Release. Originally this press release was a
three-page document where Aabø-Evensen, the author,
had made in print that me and the late Consul Riis
had forced Mrs. Riis to file a law suit against him.
Basically this press release was the tool for this lawyer to wipe out all that
I hade done for this family during almost ten years of work and to safely
attack me in Norwegian newspapers thereafter.
I would like
to remind the readers who might have forgotten it, that this guy claims to be a
Legal500 lawyer and a partner in his own law firm and not a dark-alley villain
which he obviously acts as.
It now
remains to be seen how long and how much effort it will take the public
prosecutor to break through the framework of the corrupted shelter that this
lawyer, together with his organisation of small time judges, lawyers and
journalists, has constructed around himself, and only then be able to take him
to court forcing him once and for all to answer upon these serious facts.
As almost
anything is possible in Norwegian courts, one should not be surprised if the
courts or even the public prosecutor would make effort to find their way around
even hard evidence as mention above.
After all,
the Director General of Public Prosecution has stated more than
ten years ago that he will never investigate allegations raised against a
Norwegian judge. Up till today this rule of tradition has been a pleasant
protection for numerous well-connected high profile lawyers as well. Thinking
like this though is one thing, but stating it publicly is either a proof of
madness or a message to the people that the courts and the prosecutors, two of
the most important institutions in protecting the citizens, by now are juiced
in corruption and thus are untouchable.
This
situation is a cry for changes, and you, the reader, are the only one that
could make a difference.
Herman J
Berge
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For an
in-depth reading on Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen,
please read these articles:
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