Elon Musk clashed with Nicolai Tangen over Norway oil fund’s vote against Tesla pay

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After voting against the huge pay package of Tesla Boss last year, Elon Kasturi collided with Nicholai Tangen, the Chief Executive of the Norwegian Oil Fund, on the newly released text message show.

Norj Bank Investment Management, which is Norway’s oil resource $

Invited after Tangen Wicker Ferrari Chief Benedeto Vigna at Tangen’s private residence in Oslo – for a dinner among others. According to the previous message that became public last year, the CEO of Novo Nordisk, Nestley, Dordash and Adidas was also invited to attend dinner before the annual investment conference of the Oil Fund in April.

The latest correspondence between the two from October showed that Kasturi has removed the invitation: “When I ask you for grace that I rarely do and you refuse, you don’t ask me nothing until you do anything without doing anything. Not corrected.

“Friends are such friends,” the musk added. This week the messages published under the request of freedom of information were reported by the E24 in Norway first.

NBIM It is said that it has chosen to publish messages in men in the light of increased interest in the situation. “As [messages] The show, some conversations were associated with our voting record in Tesla, where we voted for Elon Musk’s pay package in other votes, “a spokesman said.

Kasturi was contacted for comment but did not respond immediately.

NBIM has long used its holdings at worldwide companies to prevent large pay packages for executives. Tangen told the Financial Times last year that it particularly noticed “Big pay packages that were not equitable by performance, or was inadequate or inadequate long term.”

In messages, Kasturi Tangen also sent a screenshot of the correspondent with an unknown associate where the boss of the oil fund was accused of being “a dangerous politician” and has a political ambition to promote itself by using the oil fund.