The former trade and industry minister and strong man, Henrik Sass Larsen, a blacksmith on Wednesday, another bomb in Danish politics.
Sass is finished as a sosse in the Danish Parliament.
instead he must from the new year to be director of the trade association DVCA. He thus becomes super-lobbyist for, among others, the controversial private equity firm Goldman Sachs and a number of other well-funded foundations in Denmark.
DVCA’s members include bl.a. capital and venture capital funds, which are established with offices in Denmark.
For many on the political left – and also earlier, Henrik Sass Larsen himself – is kapitalfondene and their top partners, directors and investors, the very symbol of the big-capitalist greed.
And both their secrecy in the financial statements and their tax avoidance in tax havens-countries is somewhat, Henrik Sass Larsen even has tordnet against which the social democratic politician.
– You can not ask me to provide a complete financial analysis of Goldman Sachs. My principle will be that companies with operations in tax havens, will I look like extraordinarily hard to prevent tax avoidance. If it had prevented Goldman Sachs to be an investor, I don’t know, it sounded from the Henry Sass in London in may last year.
the Danish policy – 18. sep. 2019 – at. 14:31 of Sass’ new jobs: Become a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs
Also the exorbitant salaries of kapitalfondenes top partners and their huge dividends, as often happens, through companies in tax haven countries is something that just Sass Larsen has tordnet against:
– We must limit the greed. The majority of the values are accrued to the few. I believe that there is reason to talk about ownership and the ceiling on profits. One must of course have a good salary as a director, but if you can’t figure out how to set a limit, then we must do it, sounded it from him 1. may 2018.
Sass Larsen has therefore been a strong advocate for legislating on the size of the directors remuneration – but now he is as a lobbyist to fight for, for example, A. P. Møller Capital, EQT, IK Investment Partner and Goldman Sachs, which became the symbol of Wall Street’s unscrupulous greed for the financial crisis – and nationally known for the acquisition of DONG.
Also secrecy in kapitalfondenes accounts, Henrik Sass Larsen had on target. It came to pass, when he as minister of trade in the 2015 bath While looking in more detail at a legal construction, which the private equity funds could get in order to submit and publish accounts.
– I would like to have a greater clarity over the bl.a. the extent and underlying causes, before assessing whether there is a need to intervene in one way or the other, said Sass at the time to Finance.
According to Jannick Nytoft, who was sat in Sass’ new jobs in the DVCA until 2017, will kapitalfondene rub it in the hands of excitement over the capture:
– Sass Larsen is an exciting and perspektivrigt choice for DVCA. Sass comes with huge political experience and a network, which makes good sense to provide risk capital to Danish companies, ” says Jannick Nytoft to Ekstra Bladet.
the Danish policy – 25. aug. 2019 – at. 16:35 Sass forgyldes during the absence
– Sass contributes with political network and insight to provide good framework conditions, which is alpha omega.
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Sass: Not a problem Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen
Ekstra Bladet would have liked to have asked Henrik Sass Larsen, though he as cheflobbyist for private equity funds in Denmark will continue to work for tough tax audit of the hovedrige funds.
the Extra Leaf would also like to have asked Henrik Sass Larsen, what he is going to serve as a director of DVCA.
Henrik Sass is not, however, returned in the Additional Magazine’s inquiries.
It is only 14 days ago that Henrik Sass Larsen said in a posting on Facebook wrote that he was back at the Palace, where he would concentrate ‘its performance around During the historical work’.
‘But it has also been clear to me since the election that my time in politics is udrandt’, writes the 53-year-old politician on Facebook. He stops in the Parliament by the end of this month.
To Ritzau explains Henrik Sass, that there is no contradiction between being kapitalfonds lobbyist and socialist.
– It is totally in the extension of the work I have so far worked with, both as the business and growth minister, but also as a social democrat, Henrik Sass Larsen, who does not intend to sign themselves out of the party.
