Today, Alf Friisø’s son is over 18 years old and lives in Canada. The boy’s mother has been convicted in Oslo District Court for evasion of care from 2013 to 2019.

Now Nav demands ham for NOK 141,660 in arrears of child support. The contribution applies for part of the period when the ex-wife lived in Nicaragua with her son, and circumstances have therefore been convicted in Norway.

It was Dagbladet who first mentioned the case.

– It is a system error when Nav completely uncritically relates to a decision made in one of the world’s most corrupt countries, says Friisø.

He is a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has worked in a number of places in the world. His ex-wife met him at work in Nicaragua. Now he has just returned from a placement in South Africa.

– Absolutely unreasonable

Nicaragua is ranked 159th out of 180 countries Listen to Transparency International. He points out that the child allowance is ten times higher than what Nav itself came to in 2015 – namely 2230 kroner.

– It is completely unreasonable, says Friisø. He is not opposed to paying contributions, also during this period, but thinks the amount is too high, writes Dagbladet.

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He has appealed the decision, and tells Nettavisen that he will go to court if necessary, if the decision is not changed.

It started in 1999. The diplomat Friisø was at work in Nicaragua. There he met the grandmother. They married and had a son. When the boy was one year old, all three moved to Norway.

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In 2013, the mother took her son to Nicaragua to visit her family. She did not return. She believes she was allowed to move with her son to her home country.

In Norway, the mother was charged with gross evasion of care. In Nicaragua, Friisø tried to get the child returned to Norway using the Hague Convention. It did not work.

16,500 in child support

Instead, the court in Nicaragua ruled that the child should stay in the country, and that Friisø should pay child support. The contribution was to be 25 percent of his salary, men minimum 2000 dollars. At that time, the equivalent of 16,500 Norwegian kroner each month. according to RocApply I can also benefit from $ 2,000 a month in Nicaragua in 2021.

In Norway, with Norwegian living costs, the absolute highest child allowance is 9040 per child, says Christian Jessen, who heads the children’s law group in the organization MannsForum, to Dagbladet.

– It was completely absurd. The verdict was also unconstitutional in Nicaragua, Friisø told Nettavisen today. Friisø was also sentenced to prison for not paying child support. In 2015, when he visited his son, he was arrested and imprisoned.

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Aftenposten wrote in 2015 this case that Friisø was imprisoned and later this case about child abduction as a problem and Friisø’s case in particular. In the autumn of 2015, Nav awarded a new child allowance for Friisø. The amount was set at 2230 kroner, based on his salary and his mother’s cost of living in Nicaragua.

In 2019, mother and son returned to Norway. Mother was charged with child abduction. She then posed in interview in Dagbladet and denied guilt. The case has not been completed in court.

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Postpayment

Now Nav, based on a judgment in Nicaragua, demands that Friisø must pay child support in arrears – a total of NOK 141,660.

Nav refers to The Hague Convention on the International Collection of Maintenance Allowances. The agreement states that Nav will in principle not consider the claim in reality, but only collect the claim that has been measured in the country where the maintenance contribution is calculated – in this case Nicaragua.

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– I have paid a total of 822,473 kroner in maintenance to my ex-wife since the time of the abduction. It is an average of 11,423 kroner a month until my son turns 18, but Nav is not interested in listening, says Friisø.

He believes that Nav uncritically implements decisions made by corrupt officials in Nicaragua, without contacting the reasonableness of the claim.

– This is a system error. Nav believes that one should not go into the substance of the court decision, but this decision is even contrary to the constitution of Nicaragua, says Friisø.

– The killer claims

Department director Liv Tove Espedal in Nav’s performance department says Dagbladet:

“When NAV receives a request for recognition and execution of a foreign judgment under the Hague Convention of 2007, we always check that all the conditions are met.” She refers to the duty of confidentiality and can therefore not comment on this case specifically.