March 2009

Most people familiar to these cases know that I was the Riis-familie’s representative before the Court in Strasbourg. This question has nevertheless arose as a Legal500 lawyer, Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen (under investigation for committing serious crimes), claims to have won at least one, maybe two of these cases, and hence has collected the economical outcome of the ECHR-judgement.

Together with Mr. John Killengreen, the husband of the Chief of Police in Oslo (Norway) at that time, Mrs. Ingelin Killengreen, Aabø-Evensen in 1996 founded the law firm KPMG Law.

After almost two years of waiting it now seems that the public prosecutor in Oslo (Norway) has awakened as Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen now officially is under investigation for several serious crimes.

For years I was this family’s assistant, in-house lawyer, friend and joint partner in their claims against the Norwegian Government. This was turned upside down the moment the late Consul Riis was killed. I have recently got information indicating that about a year before the murder, the rest of the family gathered together some lawyers, journalists and judges in a secret alliance planning to take me out.

As documented in this article, Amelia Riis’ son, Kenneth Patrizio Riis, owns properties all around the USA. What about Amelia Riis, then? She always complained how poor she was, and that the Government and all her lawyers had ran away with all her money. She had nothing left and had barely money enough to by some chocolate now and then, as she and her husband put it. But, again, was this the truth?

Riis – a player in the arms trafficking

Among the late Consul Riis’ numerous fights in courts all over the world – there were quite a few – he considered the fights in the Norwegian courts to be the toughest, as he had experienced the Norwegian judges to be the most corrupted of them all.

Artikkelen er første gang publisert i Dråpen nr 1 2009, deretter på Nyhetsspeilet 11. mai 2009.