Member of Parliament Alex Ahrendtsen (DF) says in an interview with Politiken that he is disappointed with the lack of support from DF chairman Kristian Thulesen Dahl and group chairman Peter Skaarup (DF) to deputy chairman Morten Messerschmidt (DF) in the case, where the latter earlier this month in the Court in Lyngby received a sentence of six months probation for fraud with EU funds and forgery.
Ahrendtsen, who will not run again in the next parliamentary election, is surprised that Skaarup and Thulesen Dahl in the city court rejected that an EU seminar was held at a mentioned summer group meeting in 2015, which is the crux of the matter.
– I have been disappointed that Morten was not backed up anymore. I’m genuinely sorry because I’m emotionally involved. Morten is my friend.
– I have known him since he was 19. So on a human level, I am disappointed, says Ahrendtsen to Politiken.
Messerschmidt has appealed the verdict to the high court.
The case concerns the unjustified payment of EU funds for a conference, which was to be held in connection with DF’s summer group meeting in Skagen in 2015.
Messerschmidt applied for the money on behalf of the Meld party alliance. But neither formally nor in fact was a Meld conference held, a unanimous court in Lyngby has assessed.
Therefore, the money was given the character of a direct or indirect financing of a national party, which is clearly contrary to a regulation.
Ahrendtsen will not answer what the party leader’s action in the case does by his trust in them.
It is also an answer, concludes Politiken’s journalist. Ahrendtsen answers:
– You have to interpret it as you want.