A criminal complaint has been filed against several high-ranking Norwegian politicians, including the country’s prime minister, over their alleged complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The complaint alleges that officials responsible for Norway's sovereign wealth fund violated Norwegian laws incorporating Rome Statute provisions against genocide by overseeing investments with a high risk of contributing to war crimes, such as shares in arms firms exporting to Israel.
Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Store, the finance minister and former Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, foreign minister Espen Barth Eide, and former finance minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum are named in the complaint.
Letters seen exclusively by Middle East Eye reveal that the Norwegian Prosecuting Authority has formally recommended that Kripos, the national criminal investigation service, investigate the complaint, overturning an earlier decision to dismiss it.
The complaint was submitted by Grandmothers Against Genocide (Grag), a Norwegian activist group, alongside an additional complaint by The Palestine Committee of Norway, which further names the fund’s chief executive, Nicolai Tangen, and the governor of the Norwegian central bank, Ida Wolden Bache, as respondents.
