Frederikshavn Municipality is opening a personnel case against the employee who is revealed in a secret audio file to be withholding information in access to documents cases. This was confirmed by the municipal director of Frederikshavn Municipality, Thomas Eriksen, to RADIO IIII.
However, he does not want to elaborate further, as it is a "personnel matter," and he does not want to be interviewed. It is TV 2 Nord, which has published the secret audio file. In the recording, the employee can be heard saying:
- I will be very happy if you do exactly as I have done, because then nothing will happen, nothing new will come out or anything, says the employee in the recording.
Regards Frederikshavn Port
According to TV 2 Nord, the audio recordings are from a meeting at Frederikshavn Port on December 18, 2023, where the employee also openly says that she has omitted information in a response to a request for access to documents from TV2 Nord.
The case concerns Frederikshavn Port, which has been so financially pressured that the operation has been handed over to the municipality, and the municipality and its taxpayers have thus taken over a debt of 1.7 billion. kr.
Thomas Pallesen, an expert in the Public Access Act at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, criticizes the employee to TV 2 Nord and calls it an "abuse of power."
RADIO IIII has asked Thomas Eriksen in writing whether one can be employed by Frederikshavn Municipality if one deliberately advises to omit information from access to documents. He does not wish to answer that.
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