Norway Norway - Arjen Kamphuis, 47, Dutch citizen, Bodø, 20 Aug 2018 - #2

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Pim said:
Is there any info about which phone(s) he had and how he kept it with him? Waterproof bag? Any photos of Arjen’s belongings that were found?
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ZaZara said:
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Police have concluded in their investigation that Arjen Kamphuis was reported missing in late August last year, when he did not return to the Netherlands after his holiday in Norway.

Kamphuis had a background as a Wikileaks employee and several major international media mentioned the recovery case.

NRK also traveled to the Netherlands and met Kamphuis's friends, who did not think Kamphuis was dead, but felt he was deliberately hiding.

But the police now believe that Kamphuis is dead.

- Police have found that he was most likely killed in a kayak accident in the Skjerstadfjord at Rognan on the evening of August 20, 2018. The missing person has so far not been found and there is reason to believe he has disappeared into the sea, says police lawyer Bjarte Walla in the Nordland Police District.

The last witness observation of Kamphuis was in the afternoon on the same day as police believe the 47-year-old was involved in the accident.

Then he was seen walking from the train station towards Rognan center. Earlier in the day he had checked out of his hotel in Bodø and traveled by train to Rognan.

The police's conclusion that Kamphuis died in an accident is based on the evidence available in the case, Walla said.

A few days after Kamphuis was reported missing, a damaged kayak and a paddle were found in the water's edge at the Skjerstad Fjord.

Some other personal belongings were also found floating in the sea.

Police would probably have come to the conclusion of a paddle accident earlier, had it not been for a sim card belonging to Arjen Kamphuis at three base stations near Stavanger just before midnight on August 30, 2018.

The investigation of this track has now revealed that the relevant mobile phone, a computer and other objects were found by two Eastern European professional drivers who were fishing from shore during their rest time.

The objects were found in the same area as the kayak was found. The two Eastern Europeans thought the objects had been thrown away, since they looked they had been in the water for a while.

The two men brought the items, including the relevant sim card, and had them in their possession when they later drove to Stavanger.

The investigation has revealed that the two East European professional drivers passed the three relevant base stations on 30 August 2018.

Police find no reason to suspect the two drivers of having had anything to do with Kamphuis's disappearance beyond that.

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A Dutch WikiLeaks associate who went missing under mysterious circumstances a year ago probably had a kayaking accident, Norwegian police said Friday, adding that his body had not yet been found.

Arjen Kamphuis, a cybersecurity expert then aged 47, had not been seen since he left his hotel in the northern Norwegian town of Bodo on August 20, 2018.

His disappearance had triggered a wave of conspiracy theories on social media, ranging from CIA and Russian involvement to a mission to carry out a secret project for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Then police discovered a kayak in the same area where a fisherman had found some of Kamphuis's personal belongings floating in the waters about 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Bodo.

"The police have concluded that Mr Kamphuis most likely suffered an accident in the evening of August 20, 2018, while kayaking in the Skjerstad Fjord a few kilometres north of the village of Rognan in Nordland County in northern Norway, and was subsequently lost at sea," the police said in a statement.

"His body has still not been recovered," they added.
Body not yet found: Missing WikiLeaks associate had kayak accident in Norway: police
 
Chiatos said:
Wait a minute, since when was his computer found? Where? When? By whom? Do you have a link?
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Lorrie said:
Check out ZaZaras reply after me - or in Norwegian: Nyhetsstudio - - Savnet nederlender omkom i padleulykke or
Savnet nederlender: Omkommet i kajakk

In the same area as the kayak was found before 30. august 2018 by a couple of eastern-european lorrydrivers who was fishing.. I guess the police have had their reasons to keep quiet about it..
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In the second link it's mentioned that the two lorry drivers found the items after the computer, cell phone and other items had been outdoors for a while. They believed the items had been thrown away, and took them. The article doesn't mention when or from where the Norwegian police got the items, and were able to reach the conclusion that AK had drowned in a kajak accident.
 
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So the truck drivers from where ever in Eastern Europe, find his lap top tagged 'National Security Agency' and decide to keep it? Come on!
 
Chiatos said:
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So the truck drivers from where ever in Eastern Europe, find his lap top tagged 'National Security Agency' and decide to keep it? Come on!
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Maybe they thought it could be passed on to the Russians or some other East-European government for some extra cash? Who knows what have been done with the computer and how it ended in the hands of the Norwegian police.
 
Information from a toll station in the area about all the vehicles having passed the toll station in this direction were secured by the police, and the drivers of 38 of the 39 cars passing through in the time frame in question were contacted by the police.

A few months ago the police had only two vehicles remaining; one was a vehicle that had passed through the toll station without a licence plate in front, and which could therefore not be identified due to the fact that no photos were possible to retrieve. The other vehicle, a trailer registrered in Lithuania, the police later found to have been driven by two drivers residing in a different eastern
European country. Further investigations regarding this trailer showed that the trailer had arrived in Norway at Svinesund border crossing just south of Oslo, on August 21st 2018. This trailer had continued north, and did on the morning of August 23rd pass the only toll station between Fauske, situated between Bodø and Rognan, and Mo i Rana, some kilometers south of Rognan, in a northbound direction. On the morning of the day after, August 24th, this trailer passed the same toll station, this time in the southbound direction.
With the assistance of the Lithuanian Police, the two drivers of this trailer were questioned. Both drivers have confirmed that they arrived with the trailer in Norway on August 21st, and that they did drive north to Fauske with cargo, arriving there on August 23rd, before returning south the same day. However, some 15 kilometers south of Fauske, they stopped on a truck stop as it was time for
them to have their mandatory resting period. The Norwegian Police finds that this corresponds well with the location where the kayak was later reported found. The two drivers told Lithuanian police that they went down to the seashore to do some fishing, and while fishing, one of the drivers found a kayak which he describes to be the same as the one later found, with a small hole in the hull. In addition to this, the driver also found cell phones, sim-cards, a computer and several other
belongings of a camper. These items were in or by the kayak. The driver explains that to him these items appeared to be discarded due to the state the items were in. The driver goes on to tell that he decided to take some of these items with him in the event that they might still prove to be of any value.
The drivers remained in Norway for the next days, and explain that they were in fact driving along the E18, heading north to Stavanger, late in the evening of August 30th. This puts them in the time and place for the connection between the sim-card we know they were in possesion of, and does thereby explain the most inconsistent piece of evidence in this case, while at the same time extinguish the hope that it might actually had been Arjen Kamphuis himself who caused the cell
phone towers to catch a connection with his sim-card. The last verified time of connection between any cell phone tower and any of Arjen Kamphuis' mobile phones is therefore late in the evening of August 20th, and to a cell phone tower covering the area where the kayak was found.
The two drivers held on to the the items they found, and these items were handed over to the Norwegian Police a few weeks ago. The Norwegian Police has found the statements of the two drivers to be credible and forthcoming, and does not at this time find any reason to doubt the explanation given from them that the items were deemed to be discarded items. Based on the dates for the whereabouts of these two drivers the police finds no reason to suspect any further or other
involvement in the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, and also find it credible that the two drivers did not have any knowledge of the relevance of the items before being questioned by the Lithuanian Police.
Arjen Kamphuis har mest sannsynlig omkommet som følge av en ulykke
 
I do find this interesting from the pressrelease Chiatos linked to:

Across the fjord from where the kayak was found is a salmon farm, which had surveillance equipment that also covered parts of the seashore on the other side of the fjord. When the police secured and went through these surveillance videos, it did find that in the early evening of August 20th, a small white-coloured vessel went along the seashore in approximatly the same speed one might expect from a kayak or rowing boat. The police can not say for certain that this was in fact a kayak, or if so that it was Arjen Kamphuis on board, but with no other witnesses coming forward, we assess that there is some likelyhood that this seems to be the case. All these pieces of information, drew in the direction of strengthening the accident hypothesis mentioned above.
 
Lorrie said:
I do find this interesting from the pressrelease Chiatos linked to:

Across the fjord from where the kayak was found is a salmon farm, which had surveillance equipment that also covered parts of the seashore on the other side of the fjord. When the police secured and went through these surveillance videos, it did find that in the early evening of August 20th, a small white-coloured vessel went along the seashore in approximatly the same speed one might expect from a kayak or rowing boat. The police can not say for certain that this was in fact a kayak, or if so that it was Arjen Kamphuis on board, but with no other witnesses coming forward, we assess that there is some likelyhood that this seems to be the case. All these pieces of information, drew in the direction of strengthening the accident hypothesis mentioned above.
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Wow, do you have a link to this?
 
Lorrie said:
I do find this interesting from the pressrelease Chiatos linked to:

Across the fjord from where the kayak was found is a salmon farm, which had surveillance equipment that also covered parts of the seashore on the other side of the fjord. When the police secured and went through these surveillance videos, it did find that in the early evening of August 20th, a small white-coloured vessel went along the seashore in approximatly the same speed one might expect from a kayak or rowing boat. The police can not say for certain that this was in fact a kayak, or if so that it was Arjen Kamphuis on board, but with no other witnesses coming forward, we assess that there is some likelyhood that this seems to be the case. All these pieces of information, drew in the direction of strengthening the accident hypothesis mentioned above.
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Assuming that this was indeed Arjen Kamphuis in his kayak, where was he going? What would have been the plan?
It is great that the Norwegian Police managed to exclude the phone pings. At the same time, this raises new questions: What was the plan?

Did he have a reservation for the night somewhere? (in Fauske for instance.) Was he planning to take the night train after all? (Not enough time.) Where would he sleep? He had no sleeping bag for sleeping rough, or did he?

The state the kayak was in may provide information about the accident, has there been any information about that? He wasn't exactly kayaking in the surf or in the waves, so what caused the accident?

Questions, questions.
 
The trailer was from Lithuania and the drivers were from Latvia according to this news item: Privacy settings
Also: the drivers were questioned by Latvian police, not by Norwegian police.

According to the pressrelease by the Norwegian police, the white vessel seen in the cctv images of the salmon farm, passed by in the "early evening". The salmon breedery is located opposite Setska (more or less). The last ping of that day as we know, was further up and at around 10pm. Therefore a couple/several hours later.

Questions that remain are: how come all these belongings washed up, except for Arjen himself? How come Arjen's phone did not ping earlier or later than August 30th? Where did the rest of his luggage go to (clothing)?
Will Arjen's dear ones have his PC and phone analysed?
 
Lorrie said:
I have no idea, but it is at least two other persons in this area from Fauske to Saltdal who are missing in the fiord and not found. It is several years since they went missing...
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It's very sad that Arjen has disappeared and most probably has died in the fjord. His disappearance though has left some strange traces . For instance: his fanny pack was found floating in the fjord on the 11th of September. It was found at the same height/distance as the kayak was found.
The kayak plus pc and phone were supposedly found by the two lorrydrivers on the 23th of August at that same height/distance as the fanny pack. This would mean that the fanny pack must have remained floating at the same spot for more than 2 weeks! Without drifting along with the strong current of the fjord.
 
Chiatos said:
It's very sad that Arjen has disappeared and most probably has died in the fjord. His disappearance though has left some strange traces . For instance: his fanny pack was found floating in the fjord on the 11th of September. It was found at the same height/distance as the kayak was found.
The kayak plus pc and phone were supposedly found by the two lorrydrivers on the 23th of August at that same height/distance as the fanny pack. This would mean that the fanny pack must have remained floating at the same spot for more than 2 weeks! Without drifting along with the strong current of the fjord.
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The fanny pack could have been stuck somewhere. It could have washed ashore and then dragged into the water again by the tide. There are many possibilities. Would be easier if we knew what kind of accident it was, but that is part of the mystery. Given the damage to the kayak, could he have hit a rock below the surface? He must have been near the shore for that to happen.

If the truck drivers had found the fanny pack they would have reacted differently IMHO.

My hunch is that sadly, Arjen's body was near the place where the kayak was found for quite a while.
 
Bump for Arjen!

The Norwegian police assume a fatal kayak accident, but still nobody knows what really happened to IT expert Arjen Kamphuis, who disappeared in 2018. Artist Jillis Groen from Deventer signs for an exhibition about the mystery. "In fact, all scenarios are still possible."
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The search for Kamphuis eventually led to his kayak, identity papers and some other things, but not to the discovery of the Amsterdammer himself. The Norwegian police assume a fatal kayak accident, but there is no certainty. "We don't know anything for sure," says Jillis Groen (32), who made a series of twelve paintings about Kamphuis.....

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