Anders Greif Mathisen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

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. He was treasurer of the Oslo chapter of the Workers' Youth League

Workers' Youth League

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 (AUF) from 1994 until 1995, when he withdrew after the publishing of the Workers' Youth League membership scandal in Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang

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. In 1998, he was convicted of fraud, receiving a suspended sentence

Suspended sentence

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 of 90 days.

Anders Greif Mathisen is not to be confused with former Labour Party member, now independent, Anders Mathisen, who in 2011 gave a newspaper interview where he denied the Holocaust

Holocaust denial

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