The Hagen family donates 2 million crowns to Høyre’s election campaign

While the LO Fagforbundet union recently gave out more than nine million crowns to the ruling parties, the money is also flowing into Høyre’s campaign coffers.

Now, one of Høyre’s most loyal benefactors is digging deep to secure civic victory in the country’s municipalities this autumn: Hagen’s family’s Canica As company is giving Høyre 2 million crowns this year.

– It was normal case management, Stein wrote Eric Hagen in a short letter to DN.

Høyre is likely to make several very good choices in a number of the largest municipalities in the country. Hagen satisfies.

– I hope and believe that they will make a good choice in many cities and municipalities. Writing in Oslo, I think a change would make sense.

Earlier this year, DN could tell that the company of one of Norway’s richest people, investor Kristin Sveas, gave the Conservative Party NOK 2.5 million to campaign.

– Sofias said at the time that I live in the hope that the bourgeois parties will make a good choice.

Yet two of the country’s richest men together gave less than a single Confederation gave to the Labor Party. So far this year, the Conservative Party has received just over nine million kroner from private donors.

– We are happy for all contributions, big and small, to our campaign. Unlike Ap, SV and Sp, we do not receive large amounts of LO. Therefore, support from individuals and companies is crucial for us so that we can run an equal election campaign,” Hoare General Secretary Tom Erlend Skoog wrote in a short message to DN.

Swiss owned company

Canica is also controlled by food billionaire Stein Erik Hagen and his family. The company has links with Switzerland for many years. The principal owner of Canica as is Canica Holding ag, et Company registered in Switzerland With offices in the village of Pfäffikon.

The Swiss company owns 97.5 percent of the shares in the company and is managed by Stein-Eric Hagen’s daughter, billionaire Caroline Hagen. She assumed control and ownership in 2015. Caroline Hagen moved to Switzerland for tax reasons in 2009.

In an interview with VG in 2015, Stein Erik Hagen was able to tell that he pulled out completely after giving both central positions and majority shares in the family company Canica to his daughter. In the same interview, Hagen says that it is no longer he, but his daughters, who must decide whether Kanika should continue to fund Norwegian parties. the Certain He told VG that they will continue to do so.

Since then, Kanika has given a total of NOK 21.5 million to the Conservative Party, the Progressive Party, the Liberal Party and the Christian People’s Party, with the lion’s share of this, NOK 12.5 million, to the Conservative Party. This year’s contribution comes out on top.

More support from Switzerland

Earlier this year, DN also managed to find out that Swiss billionaire Tord Ueland Kolstad is giving NOK 200,000 to Høyre’s election campaign.

Why would you want to spend money on a Norwegian municipal election campaign when you live in another country?

– Odd Emil is an old and good connection to me, and has a tradition of supporting those who ask for support – When asked, Kolstad answered the phone from Bodø at the time.

Bodø Odd mayoral candidate Kolstad targeted Emil Ingebrigtsen. The former fisheries minister is one of the strongest Tory cards in the region and has two sons According to VG He raised NOK 1.3 million for the party’s election campaign this year.