This is the assessment of the National Board of Appeal according to Ekstra Bladet, which has followed the case.
– The National Board of Appeal considers that, as a starting point, it will not be legal if Ishøj Municipality makes a company car available for the mayor’s drive between his home and work, if the mayor himself drives the car, it reads.
Ekstra Bladet revealed in January that Ole Bjørstorp regularly parked a taxpayer-paid VW Golf Sportsvan on the residential road by his home or in his own driveway in Ishøj Village.
The mayor himself drove the company car, and when he was first confronted, according to Ole Bjørstorp, everything was “100 percent” according to the rules.
Later, the mayor admitted that he had used the car for private driving against the rules.
The Social Democrat, who is running for mayor again in next year’s election, acknowledged that he has parked the official car 40 times at home in 2019.
Ole Bjørstorp has also ridden to several party events. Something that is vertical against the Interior Ministry’s rules for municipal service cars for mayors.
The municipality and the mayor must now make sure that things are in order.
– The National Board of Appeal assumes that Ishøj Municipality will in future ensure that the scheme of making a company car available to the mayor is in accordance with the legislation, writes the public authority that supervises that the municipalities comply with the law.
Source: The Nordic Page