Genstart: Et kanongodt tilbud

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Jakob Eleman Jensen is proud and glad that he stands up in front of the Danish soldiers who have sent

permission in Estonia. On the evening, he stands up on a little

a termistic table, a little drawer, all the soldiers are in a half circle around him.

Denmark will donate 19 broken new long-awaited cannons to the Ukrainian

slaughterhouse, but just calmly secure him and use them directly to one of the

Danish troops and say that yes now we have chosen to donate, but now you have to hear

there will be something else because we have bought both rocket launchers and artillery from Elbit.

Let me make it clear that it has been a critical process since January, the former

Minister of Defense had a somewhat more serious opinion when he talked about the weapon

bought from Elbit, but it is difficult to state that the people's thing has been out of

the wrong solution. The purchase of heavy artillery and rocket launchers for 1.7 billion

kroner has shown itself to be stopped by violations and wrong information.

People's thing parties only got a few hours to go and buy, and no one told the

owners that the netters were involved in a sale with the same weapon factory.

The ridiculous fact that the remarkable value of the cannon purchase turns up and

rubs closer and closer to the most superior leadership in the Ministry of Defense.

Today, the General Staff tells the story of the scandal-raising weapon purchase and asks

on the background, can we stand on the Ministry of Defense?

My name is Anna Ingrid Schup.

When do you realize that there is something strange about this weapon purchase from Elbit?

I realize it in reality when I sit with a completely different story, namely Jacob

Eleman's report and I call Rasmus Jarlow to ask for a question about the work of the

people's thing partners. And he tells me a story that I think is quite wild,

namely that the financial election only took two hours to get a weapon bought for

1,7 billion kroner.

At this point in time, where it happens that Rasmus Jarlow is actually in Baltic with Jacob

Eleman, so he doesn't see that this treatment is still taking place. He gets a mail

and is asked to keep his phone shut because he is close to the Russian border.

And this mail says that if he can't answer within two hours, then it will be

deleted as a yes. And he doesn't know that.

Okay, Catherine, let me just understand this. You are at the beginning of a

journalistical story about stress on the board. And therefore you call

Rasmus Jarlow to bring an example of how the pressure and stress are

nearing this extremely fast weapon purchase.

Already in January, the Foreign Ministry places an order on the Elbit Systems

to be criticized for the fact that it is just as effective as the fact that we buy

guns and familiars.

Incoming spotch report, 0700 Zulu time.

Flere banker and pensioners have locked up the weapon factory because they

misthink that it uses completely fundamental human rights.

Elbit is an Israeli weapon supplier that is a major supplier to the Israeli

research. And the Israeli research uses, among other things, Elbit's ammunition on

Gaza and uses some advanced surveillance technology to

overwhelm this security barrier between the Israeli and the Israeli

spread.

In fact, there is a fight between Elbit and the Danish state in five years.

What is the fight about?

It is about the same artillery that we have now bought. Because back in 2015,

there was a big Denmark foreman who was supposed to buy this artillery, where

there was an offer from Elbit to win. Suddenly, this offer was

annullated. And there was a formal explanation and an unformal.

The formal was that you would need these money to reserve parts for a helicopter

that was carried out in organic conditions. Therefore, you had to

annull the offer. But the unformal explanation for it was that SF and

radicalism simply had blocked for you to buy artillery from Elbit.

Line up.

What is happening instead?

It is happening that you annull the offer and then two years later you make a new

offer, which Elbit is also a part of.

Two models, which are extremely reminiscent of leather cars with a cannon on

the ground, are back in the Danish artillery competition.

But there is still the order to go to the French supplier.

The other, a French produced from the company Nixter.

Elbit will of course be super over it and they choose to put a

say on the way to Denmark.

The French weapons are lowered again and again.

But after five years, the cannons will finally be on the way to Denmark.

The Korean fight for freedom is our fight for freedom.

In the meantime, the world situation has become completely different.

They are fighting for our future, for the future of Europe.

Russia has ended its major invasion of Ukraine and as the war is

advancing, the West sends more and more advanced weapons to the

Ukrainian here.

And if they do not get weapons, then they can not win this fight.

Volodomir Zelensky has a burning desire to get the fingers in our

new cannons.

So on a meeting in December last year, Zelensky addressed the

Danish Foreign Minister.

It is a meeting that the Foreign Minister from different countries

gathered.

And there Zelensky is on a video call from Ukraine.

Zelensky took up a big hat-try with Ukrainian science,

I mean, I am Ukrainians.

And on this video, Zelensky addressed Jacob Ellemann,

who has only been Foreign Minister for quite a few days.

And here he specifically asks to get the cannons delivered to Ukraine

because they are completely defeated on the battlefield.

We will look at this in a different way, and see what

can be done.

And that is a balance between what we have, what we need,

and then a desire to support those who fight for freedom

on the way down.

All of this indicates that Denmark will donate the

later-reported cannons to Ukraine.

And thus we have been able to use artillery to our own

responsibility.

Here the responsibility for material and purchase control

is also called FMI in the picture.

It is a control, like all possible other controls,

but what is central to FMI is that they are for all

purchase of military.

It is, in the end, the politicians who are going to donate

to a world purchase FMI will continue.

But it is those who run the export processes,

it is those who contact the suppliers,

it is those who deliver information to the politicians

who seek to meet decisions on the background.

And therefore it becomes FMI, one of the core stones

in the Danish economy,

who are going to find a high-quality weaponry.

They have contact with two different suppliers

in relation to the purchase of artillery in any case.

Because you buy both artillery and rocket launchers.

But on the artillery, the cannons,

there they contact the Korean supplier called Hanva,

an informal phone call where they get an offer

on some prices and some delivery times.

And then they contact the Elbit Systems,

the Israeli supplier, with a much more

advanced supply, as we say.

There is also a representative from FMI

who travels to Israel.

What do we know about their visit?

We know that they are still in net-up of the days

where FMI is going to collect prizes

from the various suppliers.

It is of two bosses down there.

It was a tour where the formula was burning

was that one should close this supply.

But the supply is not clear,

and therefore it becomes a place

where one ends up discussing while one is down there.

Let me just understand this correctly.

We have two bosses from FMI who travel to Israel

in order to complete this legal controversy,

this supply that runs back and forth.

But it is not clear, so instead they buy a new one.

In any case, they talk about prices and delivery times

with Elbit Systems.

And then of course Elbit sends an offer to Denmark.

From here it gets stronger.

Yes, everything gets stronger

if one asks more people about the supply.

With ultra-quantum supply,

the parties behind the current supply

are involved in an extra-ordinary meeting in the ministry.

The agenda is material creation.

And here, the supply chief presents

and shows the supply chief the various supplies

that one has received and is recommended to Elbit.

It takes 35 minutes

and the politicians from here know that

it is all due to the fact that

a quick decision is being made

because this supply from Elbit

has a delivery status by January.

Do they know why Elbit is the one

that is recommended to buy?

It is those who want to deliver quickly

that the supply chief would like to have.

The day after that, the supply chief

to Balticum is under a large-scale visit.

I was not even there,

but I was told that Jacob Ellemann

went and looked at his phone during the day

and waited for a message.

In the evening, the big delegation

arrives at the site of the Danish soldiers.

Can Ellemann finally deliver the supplies

because of the good news?

He has set up a little

a little talking table,

a little drawer.

All the soldiers are standing in a half circle

around him.

And he actually uses it directly

to one of these Danish soldiers.

Because Jacob Ellemann has been

in Estonia half a month earlier

where the soldier

has said that

if Denmark now chooses to donate

artillery to Ukraine,

what stands behind him?

And the same soldier

directs Ellemann to say

that now we have chosen to donate,

but now it should be heard

that there will be something else for you

because we have bought both

rocket launchers and artillery from Elbit.

It is important to fill the capacity hole

so that the soldiers

can also be attached to our soldiers

because a soldier cannot go out

and run around in fear.

You say that Ellemann

goes and looks at his phone

and you have told someone

on the trip. What is he going to look at?

He is waiting for

that this purchase is correct

through the financial election because

that is just what happens at the same time.

There is a meeting in the financial election

that I have talked to Rasmus Jarlov.

It is a meeting where they get

two hours to take place

if they agree to this purchase.

And if they do not turn back

because these two hours

will be deleted as a yes.

And of course it is not

because the phone has been switched off.

Shortly after the trip to Balticum

Jacob Ellemann is signed

with stress.

He must be allowed

to be himself.

When Catherine Falk Lønstrup

of the same year studies

how great the work pressure

is in the Foreign Ministry,

she shares something strange

about the weapon purchase.

Something is completely crazy.

A document shows that the purchase

is not at all running

at the start of January.

I am getting attention

from Ellbit

what they have sent to Denmark.

As it is always with Ames

there is a running date.

And there is not anything with January.

There is on the 30th of June

2023.

What do you think you are reading?

I think I must have misunderstood

one country.

Because I have talked to

a lot of the politicians

who were at the meeting

in the Foreign Ministry 25

and the 26th meeting

and they tell me

that it was a hasty

because the purchase from Ellbit

was running at the start of January.

I think

Jacob Ellemann has willing

to finance the election.

If the purchase is running in January

and it shows to be wrong

then the government has a wrong

by wrong information.

How do you explain yourself

in the Foreign Ministry?

You explain to yourself that

it was not about a legal guilt

that you had to answer hurriedly

if you were to be placed on the production lines.

You also mentioned that

the Foreign Ministry

responsible for material and purchasing

might not have been so basic

that they have sent information

from other factories.

What the Foreign Ministry says

is that they have talked to

three Levantes

the Israeli and the Korean

and a French Levant

called the Nexter Systems.

They also told us

that they have not been contacted by the FMI.

They have not given any information.

What do you do

with the information that you have talked to the Nexter?

I call the officials

because they have made it clear

that there had been included three

and Ellbit was the best

of the three.

And it was on that basis that they decided

that Ellbit should have the order

of 1,7 billion crowns.

It is the next story

that will be revealed

by Jacob Bellemann and the FMI.

Shortly after

the Foreign Ministry can conclude

that there has been a delay

with Ellbit from 2017.

Why is that so unthinkable?

It is in any case

disturbing because there have been

negotiations in many years.

It is a fight

that has been going on until 2017

2015.

And within a few days

after many negotiations

there is a delay

that sometimes falls

together

that you also put a new order to Ellbit.

Can it not be

an unhealthy coincidence that

the negotiations have been going on

for a really long time?

Is there something that they are

paying attention to?

That these two things are delayed

and the new purchase is hanging together?

No, there is nothing

that these two things are hanging together.

But when we are talking about the negotiations

they say to us that

regardless of whether it is hanging together

or not, they were not

concerned that there was this delay

and that they are problematic.

Okay, so what is it that the picture

is starting to draw here?

The picture is starting to draw

a situation, a saying

where the whole thing has to go

incredibly strongly

and where the politicians have been

trying to draw points.

The saying grows

and the pressure on Ellemann is rising.

There is a lot of questions

and we will see that.

There will be a delay in the negotiations

and then it is clear that Ellemann

will return from his stress report in August.

Good day!

On a press meeting he is lying flat down

and recognizes that there is made

a different mistake that the purchase

was supposed to be carried out.

The results of the two

negotiations have been carried out

in connection with the donation.

We are a lot of journalists

who have made progress

because it is the first time

that we have the opportunity

to ask Jacob Ellemann

after he has turned back.

Let me make it clear

that this has been a critical process.

Jacob Ellemann apologizes

for this press meeting.

The People's Party and Foreign Policy

have made wrong recommendations

on the basis of market coverings

and this has been unfair to the people.

He takes responsibility

for the fact that the People's Party

has been given wrong recommendations

and he says that there have been

a lot of mistakes.

But at the same time he also says

that these mistakes are

in every way possible.

At the same time,

it is important to conduct

an analysis of the organization

under the FMI's leadership structure.

When the politicians

have been delayed,

it is quite a big step

also because the department

has been delayed.

There is something

in the rescue that is not correct.

With a short speech,

Jacob Ellemann calls for a new press meeting.

Good day.

I want to come with

a small orientation

and then take a few questions behind you.

He has

an Italian newspaper

that he is very strict

and very strict about.

He is

serious and here he tells

that the rescues

that have been presented by the public

only a few days before

were simply wrong.

With other words,

there were parts of the rescues

that were kept wrong.

And on the background

he no longer has access to

his deputy chief Morten Beck

who therefore has been sent home.

It is a joint operation

that leads to that it is not possible

to have the close

and close cooperation

that has been expected

between the minister and deputy chief.

So what are the mistakes

that have been in this rescue?

Why should deputy chief be fired?

There is a whole new document

that shows that some of the mistakes

that have been made

were made in the department.

When Jacob Ellemann stood on a press meeting

a few days before and gave the FBI

the biggest part of the blame,

it was not really

the only vote that was made

about what was actually going on.

I have been known

that the department and the FBI

have found a document

that is supposed to be

in the rescue room.

These act pieces that were sent

to the financial department

and that were part of the request

that took place.

The first statement was made

in the department and not in the FBI

that was what stood in the rescue.

The document that is talking about

is the first statement

to the act pieces that the department

has written and sent to the

Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense.

The Ministry of Defense makes a statement

that the department is very clear

that the requests from Elbit

are going to be issued in January

and therefore it is going to be very good.

Then it is sent back to the FBI

that makes rescue operations

that they always do to the act pieces

where they remove the formulation

with the departure of January.

That means that they stick to the fact

that it takes place,

but they write that it takes place

a lot of other years.

Then it comes back to the department

to the act pieces.

Can you trace back

where in the system

they really would like to have

that this is going to be very strong?

I really think that

most of the system would like to have

no documentation

that there is someone who has pressed more

on than others.

But what we can at least see

is that it was in the department

that the departure of January

to the act pieces that the financial department

would like to have

and what the department

would like to know.

Yes, what the department

would like to know.

Jacob Bellemann Jensen

leaves the Ministry of Defense

to translate the written statement

to Trusund Poulsen.

But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

does not want the day to die out.

No, contrary to that,

a new report is being made

even further up in the top of the ministry.

Where the date was on June 30

in Stodd.

Not just the most powerful

in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

it is completely up to the direction

so close to Jacob Bellemann.

Okay, so there is a clear

and clear picture of

that all what you find out

on all things indicates that

in the department the direction

or the highest level of employment

is completely clear about these

mistakes and violations.

We do not have any documentation

for that element to know

but at the highest level

of employment, as you know.

There will also be more and more

information about the fallout

that has been entered.

Is there a doubt

that there has made a study

between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

What you can say is in any case

that there are more leaders

that have made a study.

And it should also be noted

that there is a quite central

person meeting where it has shown

that it was the same person

a vice-director in FMI

who stood to

negotiate for money

and also stood to introduce

the contribution from Elbit

on this new creation.

Okay, so it is the same person

who has entered the agreement

and entered the agreement to buy something new?

There it is.

Do you know what they have had to do

in order to get Elbit?

One of the requirements we have found

out that Elbit has had to do

is that they should share

the new future in order

through what is called direct contribution.

And that is

where you simply go without

all traditional procedures

and make direct contribution.

And it was a requirement that was removed

from the agreement.

And at the same time, just what happened

when we bought artillery from Elbit

we shared

the order through direct contribution.

Now the turbulent process

will end up in an independent investigation

that will become more extensive

than planned.

Jakob Ellemann said that it was

FMI's role to investigate

this lawyer investigation.

But now the parties will meet

and they will all go into

negotiations with a claim that it is not

FMI alone, but also the department

and it is also Ellemann's own role.

This is a thing that

even though I think I have been doing well

it stinks all the time.

Katrina Forsvaret is

responsible for accepting

nearly 150 billion kroner

for free purchase of artillery

and adjustment of buildings

and invest

in Forsvaret.

Can you believe

that after such a long time

that they can save their money?

There is still a broad

agreement that

it is completely unacceptable

that Forsvaret gets their money

because they need them.

But at the same time, the

officials also say that

it is necessary to have

the ability to save money

and that

there are more of them

paradoxically that the first time

now here where they are

to go out and buy something so big

then it turns out

that there have been so many mistakes

and you are standing in front

and are going to buy in

on the 20 double in the future

when you have to raise it.

So 143 billion

that the Danish money

there must be something more to check

on things in this process.

Yes, it says so.

Katrine, thank you

for visiting.

Thank you.

The progress

ends here.

With the program

it was possible to choose

Son Elbeck for Precious

and my name is Anna Ingris.

Thank you for watching.

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Jakob Ellemann-Jensen ser glad ud, da han stiller sig op på en lille trækasse foran en gruppe danske soldater i Estland og stolt meddeler, at Danmark vil donere 19 spritnye, længe ventede kanoner til den ukrainske slagmark, men bare rolig forsikrer han: Nye våben er på vej. Siden januar har den tidligere forsvarsminister dog haft en noget mere alvorlig mine på, når han har talt om det milliard dyre våbenindkøb fra Elbit. Det viser sig nemlig at være stopfyldt med undladelser og forkerte informationer. De alvorlige fejl i det bemærkelsesværdige kanonindkøb tårner sig op og rykker tættere og tættere på den allerøverste ledelse i Forsvarsministeriet. Katrine Falk Lønstrup fra Altinget udlægger de mærkelige omstændigheder omkring det 1,7 milliarder dyre våbenindkøb.
Vært: Anna Ingrisch.