Henrik Qvortrup Convicted
Ex-IBM employee gives up credit-card transaction information for money.
HENRIK QVORTRUP, former editor-in-cheif of the gossip magazine Se og Hør, was Thursday convicted of illegally accessing credit card transactions and using them to track 135 celebrities and Danish royals over a period of four years.
For example, he was able to find out where the Danish prince Joakim was spending his honeymoon.
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Qvortrup pleaded not guilty but was convicted by overwhelming evidence against him.
The other editor-in-chief Kim Henningsen received a one-year suspended sentence.
Qvortrup was sentenced to one year and three months, of which he must serve at least three months.
His attorney, Anders Németh is trying to get him a foot chain instead.
Nonetheless, Qvortrup urges reporters outside the courthouse to follow him on Twitter. Maybe like Brock Turner appears to have done, the jailbird may soon be tweeting from his prison cell:
His mole, the ex-IBM employee, Peter Bo Henriksen, risked his livelihood for a paltry 10,000 kr ($1500) per month. He has been sentenced to 18 months with no possibility of parole plus he has to pay back all of the money.
The two other journalists, Ken B. Rasmussen and Kasper Kopping were sentenced to suspended sentences of four months each.
Per Ingdal, who was editor-in-chief for a six-month period in 2009 was acquitted.
Astonishingly, Qvortrup has developed quite a career as a “political commentator” for his superficial drivel, devoid of even a modicum of political value or intellectual insight.
In recent years he has frequently appeared on national television peddling his banalities and parochialisms.
He once printed a photo of a member of the Danish Royal family with sweat spots under her arms on the front page of his gossip magazine.
This man has execrable taste, poor judgement and has displayed neither the slightest indication of moral fiber nor the ability to take responsibility for his actions.
Deafening Silence from The Scandal Rag
Not a peep about their former scandalized editor-in-chief from Se og Hør even though they claim to ALWAYS give you the latest gossip.
I guess it just goes to show; you can’t always believe what you read.
