Storfiskers wife charged in case of cheating with the fish quotas

the fraud squad has also accused the wife of one of Denmark's richest person, a sales assistant Birthe Kjeldsen, in the great case of cheating with quotas.

It shows the indictment, which Ekstra Bladet has had access to.

Thus ends Birthe Kjeldsen on the dock together with her husband, storfiskeren Henning Kjeldsen, according to Berlingskes annual top 100 list of Denmark's richest is good for 1.6 billion dollars.

the Money primarily served in control over the vast fishing quotas equivalent to approximately 10 percent of all the fish caught in Danish waters.

Also the matrimonial accountant Jørgen Ulrik Riise from kvotekongernes preferred audit firm, the MC Auditing and lawyer, Lars Sigurd Espersen, are both charged in the case, along with six other persons, according to the indictment, like his wife, have acted as front men for Henning Kjeldsen.

the Aim was to circumvent the rules for concentration of quotas.

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According to the fraud squad, it was so in order to circumvent the rules, which puts a cap on how large quotas a single person is allowed to check that the sales assistant Birthe Kjeldsen, through a newly created company bought a five and a half feet long glasfiberjolle by the name of Lasse by her husband, Henning Olesen, for 100,000 crowns – and then suddenly jump out as a commercial fisherman.

By the end of 2017 had her company – which also had a small glasfiberjolle – acquired fishing quotas for 123 million dollars.

the Design was created after it was introduced is a limit on how big the fishing quotas, each fisherman had to own.

According to the indictment acted she just a cover for Henning Kjeldsen.

Henning kjeldsen's auditor, Jørgen Ulrik Riise, and lawyer, Lars Sigurd Espersen, is accused of providing ’advice and guidance, including on selskabskonstruktioner to the use of the circumvention of the kvotekoncentrationsreglerne’, according to the indictment.

The defendants deny the reported culprit.

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the Prosecution requires 232 million kroner confiscated, as well as to Henning Kjeldsen, until further notice, 'of his right to conduct commercial fishing activities'.

at the same time, Jørgen Riise and Lars Espersen denied the right to exercise, respectively, accountant and lawyer-business, according to the indictment. Their companies MC Review and the law Firm Espersen Aps is also indicted in the case.

Ekstra Bladet tries to get comments from mr and mrs Cormack, as well as the accountant Jørgen Riise and attorney Lars Espersen.

bbc News has Henning Kjeldsen previously said: - I have no comments.

Withdrew from the fishing sector.

In June last year announced the Henning Kjeldsen on Facebook that he would retire from the fishery "It has been a good journey, and I have gone 100 percent into that."

the Reason for the message was in the due North, to the Danish Parliament in 2017, had made it illegal for storfiskere to lend the money out to the younger fishermen, who could buy shares in the boats and on the way to obtain ownership and formal the right to buy their own quotas.

In the following fishing equipment regretted Henning Kjeldsen in november 2019 the decision. He would not leave his subjects, and Henning Kjeldsen should also have ordered a new big fishing vessel at a shipyard in Spain.

- After fintænkt in a period of time, I got enough cold feet at the thought of having to sit on your hands, and not be a part of the industry that has drawn my life your the last many years, I therefore took contact to the Salt Ship Design, says Henning Kjeldsen to fishing equipment.

the Ship is 88 meters long and get the name Gitte Henning. It will be the fourth ship with this name, as Cormack gets built.