Jørn Sigurd Maurud (born 8 April 1960) is a Norwegian jurist. He is Director of Public Prosecutions from 1 November 2019.

Career

Maurud graduated as cand.jur. from the

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in 1987. He has been assigned with the

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, Nord-Hedmark District Court, the law company Wikborg, Rein & Co., and the Supreme Court. From 1995 to 2010 he was a public prosecutor in Eidsivating. He was prosecutor in the widely media-covered Orderud case. From 2010 he was

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. In 2019 he was appointed as Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions, effective from 1 November, succeeding Tor-Aksel Busch. At the time of his appointment, Maurud recused from handling of the so-called ''NAV scandal'', due to his relationship to former

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Hanne Bjurstrøm.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maurud, Jørn Sigurd 1960 births Living people Norwegian civil servants University of Oslo alumni