Norway’s SWF leadership caught up in expenses scandal

Incoming chief executive asked current CEO for favour weeks after inviting him to US seminar

Yngve Slyngstad
Yngve Slyngstad, Norges Bank Investment Management’s current chief executive
Photo: André Clemetsen/Norges Bank/Flickr

The leadership of Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is involved in an expenses scandal affecting both the incoming and incumbent chief executives.

Over the weekend, the fund’s current head, Yngve Slyngstad, acknowledged he accepted a private flight from Philadelphia to Oslo in November 2019 paid for by the man who would later be appointed his successor, Nicolai Tangen. In the US, Slyngstad had attended a seminar organised by Tangen at the Wharton Business School.

Today (April 20)

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