Only a week before the fire on the “Scandinavian Star” in 1990 was the double of the insurance on the ship.
But it was due solely to the price of the ship was inflated artificially up to twice by an unusual trade.
It writes Politiken on Tuesday on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, which claimed the lives of 159 people.
the Ship was not worth so much, says a new witness.
Svein Pond was in 1990, insurance broker and co-owner of the Norwegian brokerage firm Arvid Bergvall, who was a part of the comprehensive insurance on the ship, which was in force before the new insurance to 24 million u.s. dollars.
“When I learned that it was insured for far more than the double of what we had of value on the kaskosiden, since we had insurance, so balked I,” says Svein Pond in the last section of the nordic tv-documentary series, “Scandinavian Star”, which appears on the DR.
The total hull insurance on the ship was in 1989 at around 12 million dollars.
Therefore, half as much as the insurance on 24 million u.s. dollars, which the year after was designed with the Danish insurance company Fourth Lake.
Svein the Pond find it hard to understand that a worn out old ship as the “Scandinavian Star”, which was built in 1971, in 1990, could be traded and then insured for large sums of money.
“It was a ship, which was originally built in the early 1970s. When it began to be 20-25 years, there were two alternatives: It was either to be sold to a place on the African coast, or go for scrap,” says Svein Pond in the tv documentary series.
the Norwegian police and the Norwegian parliament’s commission has otherwise determined that the doubling of the ship’s value, only a week before the fire was natural.
It also formed the basis for the Norwegian authorities ‘ conclusion that there was an economic motive for insurance fraud.
“Scandinavian Star” broke the 7. april 1990 in the fire of the night, as it was in the Skagerrak on its way from Oslo to Frederikshavn.
482 persons – including 99 crew members – were on board the ferry.
Subsequently, it appeared that the fire had occurred several different places.
Several investigations have concluded that there probably was an arson fire.
After the fire pointed the investigators to a truck driver who lost his life by fire, but the charges were later dropped.
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