Genstart: Et kanongodt tilbud
9/6/23 - Episode Page - 27m - PDF Transcript
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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.
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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
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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.