Labor Party (AP) politician and former parliamentary representative Hege Haukeland Liadal has been sentenced to seven months in prison for gross fraud against the Storting.

Liadal is also sentenced to pay back NOK 99,000 to the Storting. She must pay around NOK 30,000 in legal costs, the newspaper Aftenposten writes.

In 2021, she was charged under section 372 of the Criminal Code after submitting a number of fictitious travel invoices to the Storting.

The circumstances of the indictment extend from 2016 to 2018. 

The prosecution believes that Liadal received NOK 125,353 too much from the Storting for travel expenses by providing incorrect information about trips that were not carried out, which were not related to her position as a parliamentary representative, or which did not trigger any right to travel reimbursement, and similar.

Liadal has pleaded guilty to gross negligent fraud but not gross intentional fraud.

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