ABSTRACT
Since fraud examiners from both an auditing firm and law firm Hjort failed in reconstructing past events and sequences of events related to illegal procurements of health-care services to a municipality in Norway, my first ambition was to find out more about what had happened. While whistleblowers A and B presented a clear understanding of what had happened and who was responsible, their stories were not consistent. Their stories tended toward conspiracy theories, where they strongly pointed at potential offenders without evidence. They claimed institutional deterioration in the municipality because of corruption. One of the two suspects, whose email fraud investigators examined, contacted me when he learned about my report of the chief executive to the police. He was upset about my allegation against the chief executive, where my police report accuses the chief executive for retribution against whistleblowers. If the court finds someone guilty of retribution against a whistleblower, the judge can punish the defendant to one year in jail according to Norwegian law.
