Court confirms Morten Storm worked with PET, rules on 82% pension

Copenhagen District Court has found that Morten Storm collaborated with Denmark’s Police Intelligence Service, PET, for four years and is entitled to 82 percent of a full early-retirement pension, DR reported.

The court also found that Storm was paid for the work and that his collaboration with PET was his main occupation during the period in question.

Storm had sought 92 percent of a full early-retirement pension. The Danish Appeals Board had asked the court to reject his claim.

Storm had previously been awarded 67 percent of a full early-retirement pension because he had not had a permanent residence in Denmark for 90 percent of the period from turning 15 until he was granted the pension.

Under the pension law, time spent abroad can be treated as time spent in Denmark if a person is posted abroad as a representative of a Danish public authority and is working in the public interest of Denmark.

The three judges considered the period from June 2008 to July 2012, when Storm lived in the United Kingdom and travelled to countries including Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon.

Based on newspaper articles, book excerpts and a 2019 decision by the Danish Appeals Board, the court found it proven that Storm collaborated with PET during the period. The court therefore concluded that he had been working in the public interest of Denmark.