Elon Musk clashed with Nicolai Tangen over the vote of Norwegian oil funds against Tesla Pay

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Elon Musk clashed with Nicolai Tangen, the executive director of the Norwegian oil fund, after the Fund voted against a huge salary of Tesla Boss last year, showing newly published text messages.

The Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages 1.7tn Norwegian oil wealth, voted last June against a Musk payment package in the amount of $ 56 billion, the largest for the Corporate America’s executive, at the annual jars assembly.

Tanger later called Musk At dinner – with the head of Ferrari Benedett Vign, among others – in Tangen’s private residence in Oslo. The main executives of Novo Nordisk, Nestlé, Dordash and Adidas are also invited to attend the evenings on the eve of the annual investment conferences of the oil fund in April, according to the previous messages that became public last year.

The latest correspondence between the two of them from October shows that Musk rejected the invitation: “When I ask you for a service that I do very rarely, and you fall, you should not ask me for one until you do something above nothing to change.

“Friends are like friends,” Musk added. The messages, which were published under the request for freedom of information this week were first reported by the Norwegian E24.

Nbim He said he decided to publish a message exchange between men in the light of increased interest in the situation. “As [messages] The show, some of the dialogues were related to our Tesla Voice Record, where, among other votes, we voted not for the Elona Musk Package Package, “said a spokesman.

He approached the male for a comment, but did not immediately answer.

NBIM has long used its shares in global companies to resist the large salary packets for executives. Tanger told the Financial Times last year that he would specifically aim for “big salary packages that were not justified by performance or were opaque or not long -term enough.”

In the messages, Musk also sent a tangent recording of the correspondence screen with an unidentified associate in which the head of the petroleum service was accused of being a “dangerous politician” and had “political ambitions using the oil fund to” promote himself “.