Tore Tønne

Tore Tønne (born March 5, 1948 in Steinkjer , † December 20, 2002 in Lier ) was a Norwegian manager and politician of the Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). From 2000 to 2001 he was the health minister of his country.

Career

Tønne studied economics at the Norwegian Business School in Bergen from 1968 to 1971 and later law at the University of Oslo . From 1974 to 1981 Tønne worked as a diplomat. Until 1988 he worked as assistant director and later department head in the oil and energy ministry . Between 1988 and 1993 he was on the board of directors of the oil and gas company Statoil (now Equinor ). From 1998 to 2000 he was head of the Norway Seafoods group .

On March 17, 2000, he was appointed Minister of Health in the Jens Stoltenberg I government. He held the post until the end of the government on October 19, 2001.

Investigation and death

In December 2002 it became known that Økokrim , the Norwegian agency for combating economic crime , was investigating him. The reason for this was that he accepted a fee of 1.5 million crowns while he was still receiving transitional allowances from the state for his time as minister. The case received extensive media coverage. Tønne himself is said to have testified that he applied for the transitional allowance because he did not know whether he would receive a fee for his work or not.

On December 20, Økokrim filed a criminal complaint against Tønne for serious negligent fraud . On the morning of December 21, he was reported missing by his family and found dead in his car that evening. It was later announced that it was suicide.

Web links

• Biography on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• Storting biography (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margrete Konstad: Dette er "Tønne-saken". In: NRK. April 17, 2018, accessed August 10, 2019 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Dette he saken :. In: Dagsavisen. October 11, 2005, accessed August 10, 2019 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ gates Tønne he FunNet død. In: Dagens Nyheter. December 21, 2002, accessed August 10, 2019 (Norwegian).