On Monday, Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S) set up the commission of inquiry to investigate allegations against the Defense Intelligence Service.
The commission must consist of three national judges, the Minister of Justice announces in a press release.
– It is crucial that there is trust in our intelligence services.
– That is why it is important to carry out the investigation so that calm can be created as soon as possible about the Defense Intelligence Service, which carries out important work to safeguard Denmark’s security, says Nick Hækkerup.
The government decided back in October that it would set up a commission of inquiry.
This happened after the Defense Intelligence Service in August had received criticism from the Danish Intelligence Service for committing illegalities, spying on one of its members and for having a “culture of legality”.
In October, the government proposed that the investigation should result in a report, which should only be published before the Parliamentary Committee on the Intelligence Services.
This is because a lot of confidential information will come to light during the interrogations in the Commission.
Es muss jedoch eine Zusammenfassung erstellt werden, die öffentlich zugänglich sein muss.
– It is atypical for a Commission inquiry to take place under such a high degree of confidentiality, but there are good reasons for this.
– It must be like this when it is an investigation that concerns the intelligence service, Nick Hækkerup said back in October.
The inquiry, which is being launched now, will focus on “the most central and concrete points of the Intelligence Service’s criticism”.
This applies, among other things, to the question of whether the Defense Intelligence Service has obtained and passed on information about Danish citizens.
Likewise, the intelligence service’s briefing of changing defense ministers is in focus, just as the commission must investigate whether the FE has withheld information for and provided incorrect information to the Danish Intelligence Service.
The Commission of Inquiry has been asked to “as far as possible” have completed its work, one year after it has been set up, the press release states.
The national judges Thomas Jønler, Hans-Jørgen Nymark Beck and Jens Hartig Danielsen from the Western High Court will be the three members of the investigative commission.
Thomas Jønler becomes chairman of the commission.
State Attorney at the Office of the Attorney General Henriette Rosenborg Larsen has been appointed as interrogator and head of the secretariat for the Commission of Inquiry.
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