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Eirik Jensen
1957
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- police officer
Eirik Jensen (born 30 July 1957) is a Norwegian former policeman who was found guilty of drug trafficking and corruption in 2017.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Kongsvinger PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Eirik Jensen (born 30 July 1957) is a Norwegian former policeman who was found guilty of drug trafficking and corruption in 2017. Jensen was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum determinate penalty allowed by Norwegian law. In 2023, he was granted a temporary release from prison for six months; he is scheduled to return to prison in September 2023; he has petitioned that the temporary release get extended. Jensen was a police superintendent with the Oslo Police Department until his arrest on charges of drug trafficking and corruption in 2014, in a case known as the CappelenâJensen affair. He was convicted by the Oslo District Court of gross corruption and drug trafficking for his role in Gjermund Cappelen's drug trafficking operation, and was sentenced to the maximum penalty in Norway, 21 years' imprisonment. He was again convicted and sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment by the Borgarting Court of Appeal in 2020. The Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal in November 2020. He has served his sentence at Kongsvinger Prison since 2020. Jensen is the subject of the 2022 Netflix documentary Mr. Good: Cop Or Crook? He has also published a crime novel and an autobiography.
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