Court case 2019-1226-A – Court Ruling (Norway, 2019)

The person was sent to prison for tax evasion in the years 2001 to 2006. The district court has assumed that A withheld share gains together about NOK 4.7 million and assets of just over NOK 4.5 million from taxation. The tax benefit is stated in the judgment to be approximately NOK 1.5 million reduced income tax and NOK 53 000 in reduced wealth tax. A was further convicted of complicity to the fact that a partner in an investment partnership evaded more than NOK 700 000 in tax in the years 2003 to 2006. Finally, the person was convicted of having contributed to a total of three employees in the Eltek Group evading NOK 425 000 in tax in 2002. On 31 October 2013, Økokrim decided that the person's DNA profile should be «registered in the identity register (DNA register), cf. the Attorney General's guidelines of 1 October 2013 ». The person did not receive the decision until April 2016, and he then complained to the Attorney General. The Attorney General also discussed the relationship of Article 8 ECHR and the DNA registration. The guidelines of 15 August 2008 provided a threshold for registration which he did not consider to be in contrary to Article 8 ECHR. The person who´s DNA was registered claimed that his right to privacy has been infringed. The registration of the person´s DNA was found to not be disproportionate. The ruling was issued with dissent 4-1. The Supreme Court's majority (para. 23-106) highlighted in particular that he was convicted of a serious crime and that the threshold for registering a convicted felon was delimited in a sufficiently precise manner. The majority highlighted that the law in question opened for the DNA to be deleted pursuant to an assessment in the concrete, and that the law had detailed regulation concerning the access and access rights to the data, the right of access for the data subject, as well as regulating the storage of the data. In the opinion of the majority, this ensured appropriate safeguards and was proportionate