immigration and integration minister Inger Støjberg (V) now acknowledges in a folketingssvar that her ministry ‘probably’ already in the summer of 2017 got to know a persons internal email from the foreign office, as the Information could be presented in February of this year.
It writes the Information.
It is an indication that the ministry did not previously have given to the Danish Parliament and the Ombudsman. On the contrary, both bodies got to know that the ministry had not ‘received or seen’ the email before the Ombudsman contacted him about the 1. February in the year in relation to the Information had made him aware of it.
Politicians from the opposition are highly critical.
– It is pure deception, says the Unity Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen for the Information.
She notes that the ministry has formulated in a way to the Danish Parliament and the Ombudsman, so there is not direct has been given false information.
– But the whole exercise is to say that they have not received or seen the email, to give the impression that they have known it, and only when they are asked directly whether they have been informed of its content, the truth is that for the day.
Mattias Tesfaye (S) also believe that Inger Støjberg has misled the Danish Parliament and the Ombudsman:
– I will remind you ministeransvarsloven and the law on the ombudsman. A minister has the responsibility to provide the information asked for. I interpret it here went like that she does not live up to the two laws.
the Ombudsman described it in the beginning of march this year as a “clear misjudgment” that the foreign office had not handed over the email to him, after he had asked all relevant material in the case of the separation of asylpar.
And now, the situation seems to, that the ministry has known for the email and its content for a long time before the ombudsman’s comments on it, and nor does the ministry made sure that it was handed to him.
the Email contains the former director in the foreign office, Henry Grunnets description of a key meeting in the case of the separation of asylpar, and it contradicts according to critics Inger Støjbergs claim that at this meeting should be given the oral message, that in certain cases there should be no exceptions from the minister’s instruction on the separation of all asylparrene
It is Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, who has asked the question that has now gotten Inger Støjberg to come up with the new information. She would have to know whether any official in the ministry before the ombudsman’s inquiry ‘orally or in writing’ was ‘informed of the email content’, when now the ministry has not ‘received or seen’ the email.
In the answer informs Inger Støjberg, that ‘it may be assumed’ that an employee in the ministry by telephone in June 2017 was informed that the agency had found mailudvekslingen, which no one had up until then been aware of. And that the employee is ‘likely’ in this context was also informed about the message content.
In another response informs the minister that she and her special advisor was also informed that the agency had now found mailudvekslingen, but they were not informed about the detailed content of that email’.