01x03 - The Connection

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A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES

[Eirik Jensen] I just froze,
and I got completely cold.

And then they slap the cuffs on,

and then...
then I'm thrown into a security cell,

and there I lay waiting
to be transported again.

- And then I thought, "sh*t, what is this?"
- [door opens]

[locks]

During the first interrogations,
I was confronted

with allegations
of smuggling hash and corruption.

And I answered them, as best I could.

I felt that regardless
of what I said, no one believed me.

So I was very much mentally exhausted.

I had my belt and shoelaces
and everything when I was down there,

and the plan was clear.

But thanks
to two amazing correctional officers

who've probably seen this before,

so they picked up the signs
and grabbed me.

And forced me to play table tennis

and work out in the gym and...

started fly-tying.

That saved me, for sure.

[clicks]

THE ILA TALKS

[detective in Norwegian]
Y ou've never been caught.

- [Gjermund Cappelen] No. No.
- [detective] Until now.

And I wonder why not.

[Cappelen] If we go into that...

then I want out.

[in English] Cappelen's statement
has one purpose.

That is to gain benefits for himself,
primarily a reduced sentence.

[Cappelen in Norwegian]
He got so-and-so much per kilo.

- [detective] How much?
- [Cappelen] Five-hundred kroner.

- [detective] Per kilo?
- [Cappelen] Yes.

[Jensen in English] The guys
looking for a reduced sentence

are also completely capable
of making false claims.

I can't even describe the betrayal.

Worst of all is that the person I trusted,
that I helped and stood up for,

that he would destroy my life.

I did not see that coming.

EIRIK JENSEN, THE ENIGMA

[woman] I did not fall
head over heels in love with Eirik.

It was a process,

and we actually
talked a lot about starting

a relationship
under the extenuating circumstances.

He was in the newspapers almost daily.

Wasn't a soul who didn't know
who Eirik Jensen was.

And Eirik asked me several times,

"Do you know what you're doing?"

"Do you know what this could lead to?"

Eirik's main concern was that,

"If we start a relationship,
then you have to stay."

"I can't handle both the case

and to be abandoned."

[reporter in Norwegian]
Eirik Jensen's trial begins

in the Oslo District Court on January 9.

Jensen denies all charges of corruption

and being an accessory
to gross drug-related crimes.

The prosecution's most important witness
is co-defendant Gjermund Cappelen,

charged with smuggling tons of hashish
with the help of Jensen.

BORDER CROSSING SWEDEN - NORWAY
SVINESUND

[reporter 2] In your opinion, how vital
was Eirik Jensen to your operation?

Absolutely critical.

[reporter 2] What amounts
are we talking about?

We are talking millions.

There's no hocus-pocus about it.
We met, and he got money.

[Benedict de Vibe in English] Cappelen
wasn't looking to hurt Eirik Jensen.

But when the ball first started rolling,
there was no way out.

And he couldn't explain
those 20 years without involving him.

[Kaja de Vibe Malling] Prior to the trial,

Cappelen was portrayed
as a notorious liar in the media

by Jensen's defence attorneys.

Meanwhile, he had been
in countless interrogations,

without access to documents
and explained himself in detail

about his own operation
and relationship with Jensen.

So, for him, it was very important
that the judges believed him.

[man] I first met Eirik Jensen
when he was released from custody.

He was really down.

He was not able to understand

what the case
or accusations were based on,

and he was very clear
that it was not correct.

He had not done anything wrong,
and he would not be convicted.

[Sidsel Katralen] I don't think
it was about,

"Do I get four years,
eight years, 21 years?"

For him, the consequences were so dire
that it was a matter of life and death.

And his only alternative was,
"You have to believe me."

Prior to the district court proceedings,

Eirik was not involved in his own case.

He had a dismissive attitude
and "the lawyers will fix it."

OSLO DISTRICT COURT

JANUARY 2017

[reporter in Norwegian] We are here
at the Oslo District Court.

Here the policeman Eirik Jensen
will spend the next five months

fighting the very serious charges
brought against him.

[camera shutters clicking]

[reporter in English]
This case is historic.

Never before has a Norwegian policeman
faced such serious charges

as Eirik Jensen.

The interest in this case is enormous.

On the first day of the trial,

already more than 3,000 articles
had been written

about Eirik Jensen and Gjermund Cappelen.

ONE OF THEM IS LYING

[camera shutter clicks]

We were also very curious

how the first meeting between Eirik Jensen
and Gjermund Cappelen would be.

[Ragna Lise Vikre] I don't think
I'll ever forget

the glances those guys gave to each other.

Cappelen had a questioning look.

Like he was trying
to understand the extent of Eirik's rage.

Court is now in session.

Gjermund Cappelen, please rise.

- Your full name is?
- Gjermund Erik Cappelen.

[Kim Heger] There's something called
an occupation that we usually ask about.

- I have no occupation.
- [Heger] No?

No.

[Heger] I will now ask
the attorney general to read the charges.

Please.

Thank you. From '93, '94
until November the 14th, 2013,

he was behind the organised smuggling

or attempted smuggling
of a large quantity of hashish to Norway.

Do you plead guilty or not guilty
of this charge?

Guilty.

[Heger] Eirik Jensen, please rise.

In the time between 2004
until November 14, 2013,

he assisted
Gjermund Erik Cappelen's smuggling

and attempted smuggling of a particularly
large quantity of hashish to Norway.

[Heger] Jensen,
do you plead guilty of this charge?

No.

[Heger] No.

[Torgrim Eggen] This case can
basically be boiled down to two stories.

Gjermund Cappelen claims to have imported

huge amounts of hash
with the assistance of Eirik Jensen.

They were partners.

Jensen couldn't be replaced.
Then everything would fall apart.

Eirik Jensen, on his side,

claims that
what Cappelen is saying is a lie,

and that all contact between them
was informant based.

"Once upon a time."

That is how
Gjermund Cappelen's statement or story

should have begun.

I am convinced that Gjermund Cappelen
has put a lot of thought

into the organisation he built.

It is downright professional.

There is extensive travel activity
to the Netherlands,

to Denmark to Spain and Germany.

He is careful
in choosing people close to him.

[camera shutter clicks]

Additionally, he brings in hash
of exceptionally high quality.

There is nothing to indicate
this is an improvised business

and that he picked up hash wherever.

Kripos made a statement saying that

they have rarely
seen hash of this quality before.

Gjermund Cappelen is clearly
the boss of the operation.

He controls the others in the network,
including Eirik Jensen.

- Eirik Jensen does not control Cappelen.
- [camera shutter clicks]

- It's the other way around.
- [camera shutter clicks]

INTERVIEWS

[Martine Aurdal] There is an enormous
amount of underlying investigative work

and circumstantial evidence,

the likes of which have probably
never been seen in a Norwegian court.

Every day
when the parties enter the court,

heavy-wheeled suitcases with documents
are brought in.

Yet, the one piece
of overwhelming evidence is still missing.

The so-called smoking g*n that
every detective dreams about.

And the circumstantial evidence
is dependent on the prosecutors

demonstrating the weaknesses
in Jensen's statement.

The amount of contact between Cappelen
and Eirik Jensen was enormous.

The number of messages sent
by policeman Eirik Jensen

is almost the same amount
as Cappelen's wife,

who Cappelen has small children with

and someone who Cappelen
assumingly communicates a lot with.

Some of probably the most important
evidence in the case is found

in the text messages.

LOT NUMBER, DATE, DAY, TIME, SENDER
FROM JENSEN, FROM CAPPELEN

[Aurdal] The case contains thousands
of communications

between Cappelen and Eirik Jensen.

Many of them are written
in some type of code...

- [typing]
- [chiming]

GOOD! MIGHT WORK ON THE HOUSE TOMORROW

THAT'S GREAT.
GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST

...where the two defendants have
completely different explanations

of what the code means.

[chimes]

- [types]
- [chimes]

Cappelen has explained
that almost all of the text messages

between Jensen and Cappelen
are about the drug operation.

There are messages
where Jensen nags about smuggling.

[chiming]

There are numerous messages from Jensen
where he gives Cappelen the impression

that Jensen has control of the situation.

That there's nothing to worry about.

[chiming]

GOOD CONDITIONS IN THE FOREST NOW

SUNNY AND SAILING WEATHER
FOR ABOUT 2 WEEKS

[Aurdal] Subsequently, after a delivery,
there is a series of messages from Jensen,

where according to Cappelen,
he's nagging for payment.

[chiming]

ANYTHING HAPPENING TODAY?

HI.! ANY IDEA ABOUT WHAT TIME?

[John Christian Elden] Jensen explained
that there was every reason

to contact Cappelen,

because he was asked by colleagues

to provide information
on a police operation, which he did.

All of this is done in the shadows.

It can be small pieces.

Because this is an intelligence puzzle

where you have a certain amount
of informants operating

in many different scenarios.

And suddenly,
you get a piece of information

that fits with another bit of information,

and most of this you keep in your head.

Jensen, for his part, claims that
it was never about drug smuggling,

but that they had "flower language,"
which he calls it.

Because that's what he usually uses
with his informants, Jensen says.

So that they wouldn't be
exposed as police informants.

[Jensen] I was trained
to use it in Denmark

at an undercover course
in 1993, I believe.

That's when we started
with these short messages

that were understandable
for those who needed to understand

and incomprehensible for those who didn't.

Firstly, we have to make sure
that the informant is never revealed.

Additionally, there's another situation
to take into account.

And that's that
the informant gets approached,

and they start checking his phone.

You can't have messages saying,
"You can go into Ola now,"

because that screams police.

So you have to use a language
that can have many different explanations,

also that it is criminal.

[chiming]

THE SNOW SUCKS

So it's quite common to use these codes.

There are two versions of this story.

The texts and contact were either
about the smuggling of drugs,

or it was about informant activities.

It's one or the other.

[reporter] Eirik Jensen attacked
the investigation carried out

by the police's Internal Affairs unit

during his open statement today.

Jensen claims that their contact
was related to police business.

They've never been
in that world that my case is about.

Namely, how are informants used?

What is the codex?
What is logical in that world?

The courts and lawyers
don't understand this.

And you have to understand this,

otherwise,
you can't make a correct judgment.

One of the unique things
about this case is the insight

into the police informant activities.

Out of consideration
for the informants and their handlers,

this information is rarely
presented in a court of law ever.

But here, it's the main focus of the case.

It gives us a unique insight
into a world we rarely get to see.

[engine revving]

[John Malden] You always
tell your informant,

"You have to stop committing crimes
if we're gonna work together, period."

But you can't run around
arresting your informant all the time.

Then you'll never know anything.

And then there are informants
who work with the police

to get their competitor arrested.

So it's always a game,

and there are some that pay
and some that win.

That's just how it is.

[Paul Larsson] Informants often have
their own agenda for being informants.

One of the things they do is,
of course, to snitch on others

in the same business
or to take advantage in other ways.

The police know all about this, of course.
We know.

[sighs] It also sort of contradicts basic,

should we call it judicial ideals
and also police ideals,

to use these types of methods.

[Shahid Rasool] I received offers
multiple times during interrogations.

One of them told me,

"Shahid, have you thought about
why other enforcers are not doing time?"

Then they say,
"You should think about it, then..."

"We'll look the other way to what
you're doing, then you'll help us?"

And that's word for word
what they told me.

So that means I could work as I wanted.

Earn millions,
keep building and building me up,

as long as I swept away my competitors.

So I could have lied
and made up a bunch of fairy tales.

I didn't need to serve 12 years.

Could have walked right out.

But I didn't tell any fairy tales,

so I was locked up for 12 years.

The Oslo police district's leadership
were fully aware of what was happening,

and they were informed about stuff,
and as long as stuff was okay,

then it was okay.

And when the results came,
it was definitely okay.

The only time I nearly fell off my chair
was when the judge asked Jensen

if he knew
about Cappelen's criminal operation.

And when, um,
Jensen answered "no" to that.

[chuckling] And then I thought,
"That was not a smart move," I thought.

[laughs]

[reporter] It seemed like
the judges found this strange.

That Jensen never realized
that Cappelen was a career criminal,

a major criminal figure.

Why is Jensen denying
that he knew what Cappelen was doing?

We believe he's denying this
because it is a requirement for acquittal.

[De Vibe] That Jensen said
when he took the stand,

"I didn't even know
he was involved with hash."

So you could ask
if he already shot himself in the foot.

[woman in Norwegian] How is it possible

that you didn't know
about Cappelen's involvement with drugs?

[in English] I've said that my gut
told me he was hiding something.

But a gut feeling isn't enough
to sacrifice a good informant.

What I did was
check out intelligence files

for notes that Cappelen
was dealing in something.

There wasn't any.

There wasn't a single file
on Cappelen at that time.

[Elden] This general allegation
that yeah, yeah.

We've all heard of Cappelen's involvement
with drugs wasn't even true.

When we look into these years,

out in the 2000's
until when Jensen was arrested,

no one had heard of
or was running any drug operation

against Cappelen at the time.

So that Jensen hadn't heard
was no stranger

than anyone else
in the police not hearing it.

No one else in the police had heard of it.

So when you have X amount of informants,

you don't want to shorten their life.

So you ask what you are
obligated to ask about.

And then you say, "Copy, out."

And as long as no other informants
are talking about your informant

and say that he's up to no good,
then it doesn't matter what I think.

He gave me an explanation,
and he's providing information

that enables us
to do our social responsibility.

That's how it's supposed to work.

So if not, if you k*ll
every informant you have,

because you have a suspicion,

then the door is shut.

[Vikre] Eirik and his defence attorneys
were too focused

on Eirik coming out of this case
without a single scratch.

I absolutely got the impression that

they were going to go all in on acquittal.

Anything else was totally
out of the question.

It was 21 years or nothing.

That's word for word.

[Aurdal] The timelines are
the most important exhibit in the case.

They compare text messages between
Eirik Jensen and Gjermund Cappelen,

with delivery times
of drug shipments to Norway.

Eirik Jensen sends a series of messages
that all is quiet and peaceful,

and placed like that in a timeline,
they seem,

in my opinion, like heartbeats.

Especially when we compare this
with our witness statements.

It forms a very clear pattern.

[chiming]

EXPECTING TO START AT THE END OF THE WEEK

[chiming]

[chiming]

NICE, HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING.
WILL LET YOU KNOW IF THERE IS WORK

OCTOBER 8 - AMSTERDAM
CAPPELEN MEETS HASH SUPPLIER

[chiming]

GOOD STUFF.. WILL WORK OUTSIDE.
GREAT WEATHER FORECAST

OCTOBER 13

IMPORT FROM THE NETHERLANDS


[Eggen] There are droves of messages

between Cappelen and Jensen
that are suspicious.

None of these are
conclusive evidence by themselves.

Closest we get is probably
the so-called Mr. Good messages.

[Aurdal] Gjermund Cappelen does have
a lot of code names on his phone.

He has saved one contact as "Mr. Good."

There is a lot of discussion in court

about whether Mr. Good
could be Eirik Jensen.

THE LISTING
OF A "MR. GOOD" IN HIS PHONE IS...

[woman in Norwegian] Are you Mr. Good?

[in English] No, I am not Mr. Good.

But they would very much like
for me to appear to be Mr. Good.

The reason it's interesting

is because they need it
to support the claim of complicity.

There's just one example
where there is a warning.

That's the only one, I think,
that can be defined as a warning.

The first thing I want to draw
your attention towards is the shipment

that arrived in December 2009.

Cappelen communicates
with Jensen on December 2nd,

saying that something
that is happening before the weekend.

[chiming]

SOMEONE MAY LOOK AT THE PROJECT
BEFORE THE WEEKEND

[chiming]

And then the communication moves
to the number linked to Mr. Good.

[chiming]

QUIET AS THE GRAVE HERE

[Eggen] These "control"
and "quiet" messages from Mr. Good

arrive at the same time
as Cappelen is planning

to smuggle 400 kilos of hash.

And if they could connect it to me,

then everything else
Cappelen is saying is true.

Language analysis has shown clear
characteristics in Jensen's writing.

[typing]

He has a tendency
to use double false stops as spaces.

and sometimes adds a full stop
before exclamation marks.

[typing]

[De Vibe] A language expert concluded

that there was a high probability
that Jensen wrote those messages.

OK.. I'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT..
TALK LATER.!

YES IT LOOKS GOOD.!

[Jensen] There was analysis of used words
and signs and so on and so forth.

And that's all they had to go on.

You can't say, "Oh, oh,
I recognize it in the way it's written."

"This is Eirik Jensen."

It could have been anyone

with an old Nokia that is pushing
the period button a little extra long

and then a few symbols next to it.

That's very typical of those phones.

[Aurdal] It came out early that Jensen
got rid of the phone he used

to keep in touch with Gjermund Cappelen

when he was arrested at the time.

Jensen said it was about
protecting lives and health.

Because there's a lot of information
about Gjermund Cappelen and others

on that phone,
which is used to handle informants.

To get rid of a piece of evidence
that actually supports your story,

I find that strange.

I would have kept the phone

because it could verify
my... my exact activities.

[Kristine Schilling] Eirik Jensen's
statement is neither credible nor logical.

He throws away a phone to eliminate
any trace between him and Cappelen.

He does this to make sure
that he is not connected

to the investigation
into Cappelen's network.

We have, of course,
heard from other officers

about broken or discarded handler phones,

but that is after the content was secured
and all contact had been logged

after the officer
has verified the content.

[Eggen] Accountability is in essence
the same as writing reports and so on,

logging meetings,
phone conversations and so on.

All the things we see on TV shows

that police officers hate doing
and would rather avoid, right? [chuckles]

And Eirik Jensen was no exception.

[Johnny Brenna] Eirik was not good
with admin,

meaning that
he wasn't good at writing reports.

What's called accountability.
Meaning that you are supposed to write

and account for what
you have done at all times.

He was more old school,
where he had one-on-one meetings,

brought informants home, was too close.

And you become
very vulnerable in situations like that.

You don't have a line of retreat,
and you can be vulnerable to accusations.

[De Vibe] What weakened Jensen's statement

is that there is nothing verifiable
about what he's been doing.

If there was something,
it should have been noted.

There were many that were
taken aback that it wasn't noted,

since he claimed that this was
one of his most important sources.

[Ole Jørgen Arvesen]
Eirik knew very well what the rules were.

He was actually one of the people
who were supposed

to make sure we followed the rules.

That he never followed the rules himself,

that's something I thought about a lot.

I had very little insight
into what he was actually doing.

[Schilling] The relevant question
to ask is why Eirik Jensen

failed to follow procedure
in his contact with Cappelen.

We believe there is only one reason.

The relationship developed into
cooperation with Cappelen's operation.

And the informant-handler relationship
turned into a cover story.

[Katralen] I think Eirik became
discouraged and frustrated,

because without naming any names,
he sat with information

about other handlers who've
worked similar to Eirik Jensen,

but said nothing about that in court.

So, for Eirik Jensen, I think
it must have been very, very frustrating,

because he was left standing alone.

The system doesn't have his back.

Not even his bosses
at that time, who obviously... [scoffs]

It would have been strange if they didn't
know how the informant handlers operated

and what they did.

Even then, he's left standing alone.

They hide behind regulation

and say, "We do this, but look at him."

"He didn't do it,
so he needs to take the fall."

[Aurdal] Gjermund Cappelen received
a shipment of 400 kilograms of hash

on Monday, the 7th of December, 2009,
according to the police.

[chiming]

Internal Affairs stated that Eirik Jensen
most likely met with Gjermund Cappelen

on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.

After the supposed meeting,
Eirik Jensen begins sending

a series of messages to Cappelen.

- [chimes]
- And they are quite similar.

[chiming]

Internal Affairs believe this clearly
means that he has counted the money.

It should have been 100,000.

That there was only 90,
and that he's nagging to get the rest.

[Jensen] They referred

to a specific date, and my statement is

that Cappelen gave information
about some test routes.

But... but nothing ever came of it,
I think.

I am of the opinion that
that was affirmation to Cappelen,

a pat on the back that it had worked.

Uh, and then you have to reflect on.

It sounds like an odd statement,

but that's the statement I made,

and the statement I believe is right.

Gjermund Cappelen claims
that Eirik Jensen got 500 kroner per kilo

he smuggled into the country
since the '90s.

That would mean
that tens of millions of kroner

should be visible through
excess spending or exist somewhere.

The Internal Affairs investigation
revealed large

and abnormal cash expenditure by Jensen

from 2004 to 2013.

Jensen has spent more money
than he earned as a policeman,

and the over-expenditure was possible
due to a steady cash flow.

[Jensen] I've been working
since I was 16 years old

and put money aside.

I received a lot of money from my parents.

I made money as a diver for years.

It adds up when you're paid


[Aurdal] A key element
is Jensen's cash deposits.

He made dubious cash deposits
by travelling from place to place,

depositing small amounts
in different places.

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

MAY 4, 2012

MAY 25, 2012

That's not how most of us
handle our money,

and obviously suspicious
for the detectives.

[Jensen] The reason for the deposits
at different times in different places

is because,
and I haven't told many about this,

but we knew that a Pakistani contact
with ties to the B g*ng

worked at DNB, my bank.

In this line of work,
you become semi-paranoid.

You usually practice the same safety
routines you hammer into your informants.

The conclusion is

Jensen chose to have
a cash economy over a period of time

and with a size
that we only see in criminals.

Eirik Jensen has failed
to provide any evidence

to substantiate that the money came

from any other source
than what we claim, namely Cappelen.

And the money trail ceased
after Cappelen's arrest,

meaning Jensen
no longer had access to cash.

[Aurdal] The police found


when Eirik was arrested at his home.

THE MONEY WAS WELL HIDDEN

[Jensen] This was an escape box.

Now we're in a world
that no one has been in, in Norway.

Being on assignment 24 hours a day,

looking after two people.

If anything happened,
it was my job to show up.

And then I needed that cash.

[Roger Stubberud] Eirik and I
were working on a case

where there was a risk
for the person involved of being exposed.

Eirik had put together
a so-called exit strategy,

where this person would get
to a safe place on short notice.

Possibly leave the country
or to another place in the country.

I think it was somewhere
between 30 and 40,000 kroner.

That this became a big issue
was probably because

it's the only money they ever found.

[Aurdal] It seemed very suspicious
to have money in the wall like that.

And Eirik Jensen did admit to having
received the money from Gjermund Cappelen.

Cappelen says that this was payment
for drug smuggling.

Jensen says
that it was repayment of a loan

he supposedly gave Gjermund Cappelen.

[Cecilie Blegeberg] I just laughed.

Why would Cappelen borrow money
from Eirik Jensen?

He has loads of money
during the time I was with Eirik.

Cappelen should never have needed
to borrow money from Eirik.

Eirik Jensen's statement that Cappelen
needed to borrow 30,000 is not credible.

Cappelen did not need cash.

- [camera shutter clicks]
- The whole house was full of money.

There was money all over the place.

He had more than enough cash.

[reporter in Norwegian] Jensen is charged
with receiving 2.1 million kroner.

Cappelen claims, among other things,

to have paid the bill
when Eirik renovated the bathroom

at the farmhouse where he used to live.

[in English] The prosecution's strongest
evidence in this case is the renovation

of Eirik Jensen's now infamous bathroom.

RENOVATION OF BATHROOM.
ÅRHUS FARM 2005/2006

[Eggen] Eirik Jensen and his girlfriend
wanted to renovate the bathroom.

It resulted in the possibly most infamous
bathroom renovation in criminal history.

[De Vibe Malling]
Cappelen talks about this

during the Internal Affairs
interrogations,

long before Jensen is asked about it.

He tells about the cooperation
during the interrogations.

"Yes, by the way, I've also renovated
a bathroom for him on his farm."

I did him a favour
by making sure that it was painted

and that he got new pipes.

That they made a bathroom
and it was made by my people.

[Eggen] One of the contractors involved
with the bathroom

was supposed to get 120,000 for the job,
but the bill was never paid.

According to Jensen, there was
a conflict between the two of them

because apparently,
the tiler was incompetent.

And to be frank about it,

I do what many other people who've been
in conflict with their contractor does.

You don't ask to pay the bill.

You expect him to mail it
at his convenience.

[in Norwegian] Jensen describes
as the reason for the missing payment,

but I've never heard
of a contractor being so angry

that he didn't want 120,000 kroner
for a completed job.

[in English] We weren't trying
to wriggle out of the bill or anything,

but we did have a bad relationship.

So in my mind,
he needs to come with the bill.

But he didn't show up,

and he died in the meantime.

Cappelen claims,
which cannot be documented,

that he paid it.
That's why it didn't come.

But we'll never know
if Cappelen is telling the truth.

During the interrogation,

Jensen says that the contractor
did actually give him a receipt.

When it's Gjermund Cappelen's turn,

he claims that yes,
Jensen did get a receipt,

but it's Gjermund Cappelen himself
who wrote it,

added some logos
and signed it as Frank Olsen.

And the detectives found
Gjermund Cappelen's fingerprint

on the so-called Frank Olsen receipt.

LYING ABOUT THE BATHROOM

[Jensen] Then there was the blunder
I didn't remember.

That the receipt came from Cappelen.

So questionable, yes. Criminal, no.

But because I didn't remember,
because I was stressed at that time,

it somehow became a decisive piece
of evidence that I was lying.

THIS BATHROOM WAS PAYMENT
FOR THE HASHISH COLLABORATION

[Larsson] There is a common understanding
of what corruption is.

On the subject of bathroom renovation
and those kind of things,

could by themselves
seem relatively trivial.

But to do this as a policeman,

to receive these things is, uh,
totally different than as a civilian.

This is... is, uh,
unquestionably corruption,

according to the law.

[woman] Court is adjourned.

[Stubberud] My impression
of Eirik is very different.

Okay, okay, he was a bit of
a "wheeler and dealer" guy.

Buying cheap and fixing things.
Yeah, definitively.

That he paid workers
under the table, yeah.

And maybe received some money
because he helped people. That's Eirik.

But that he was knowingly corrupt?

That he accepted money
to give people advantages

so they could run
their criminal enterprise in peace...

or that he was an active part
of drug smuggling?

That's...

That's completely unimaginable
that Eirik was a part of that.

[Leif Lier] He did so many good jobs,
you know.

He provided so much information.

Both myself and I'm sure others too
turned a blind eye.

I'm sure we can be criticized
for this after the fact.

But I have never, not even once,
suspected Eirik Jensen

of importing or helping to import drugs.

That's what he fought against
all those years.

He crossed the lines.
He broke the rules. All right.

But drug smuggling, never in my life.



THE VERDICT

[camera shutters clicking]

The Oslo District Court
will now deliver the verdict

in the criminal trial against
Gjermund Cappelen and Eirik Jensen.

The verdict goes as follow.

There is evidence beyond reasonable doubt

that the relationship
between Cappelen and Jensen

never was an ordinary
informant-handler relationship.

To the contrary, the court finds evidence
beyond any reasonable doubt that Jensen

deliberately gave Cappelen the impression

that he could run
his extensive hash operation

with the help and support of Jensen.

The court finds it clear that
Jensen's "quiet and sunshine messages"

were nothing more
than a signal to Cappelen

that he was not on the police's radar,

that he could safely bring in
and handle the shipment.

They didn't believe anything.

In short.

Jensen, just like Mr. Good, sent multiple
messages to Cappelen about it being quiet.

For this reason, the court has no doubt
that Mr. Good is Jensen,

and that Jensen was in the know
about Cappelen's coded language

about hash smuggling.

The verdict is unanimous,
and I ask you all to rise for the verdict.

Gjermund Cappelen is sentenced
to 15 years imprisonment.

Eirik Jensen...

is sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment.

[Vikre] Twenty-one years.

That's Eirik's entire life going to...

to hell right then and there.

[in Norwegian] Gjermund Cappelen
was sentenced to 15 years.

He received a 30% sentence reduction
for having confessed

and for testifying
about Eirik Jensen's role.

[Jensen in English]
The fact that they don't believe you

and when you know
the other story is a lie,

you become bitter, and you become angry.

You become frustrated.

You go through all emotions.

My immediate reaction was
that it was wrong.

This thing about informants,
which is the core of Eirik's statement,

has in a way been rejected
as not credible.

[Vikre] I believe Eirik worked too closely

with not just Gjermund Cappelen,

but also some of his other informants.

Eirik trusts people.

And it's kind of a paradox that
these same qualities possibly contributed

to Eirik being in this situation.

[Katralen] In my opinion,
Eirik's Achilles' is his loyalty

to the field of work he's been in
for all these years,

namely special operations,

handling informants and policing.

[Jensen] I was on the brink,
right on the edge.

And then a discovery was made
that strengthened my statement.

And that, of course,
awoke something in me.

And I am known to be a fighter.

And that was exactly what I needed.

Because now I can prove
that Cappelen is lying.

CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF AUDIO AND EVENTS

GJERMUND CAPPELEN DECLINED AN INTERVIEW