Pål Fredrik Kraby (16 February 1932 - 8 August 2009) was a Norwegian

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and

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. Born in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

, Kraby became a

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barrister in 1968. He was the CEO of the

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(NAF) from 1979 to 1987, having been assisting director since 1973. He was pressured to resign due to a

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which failed. Having received a secret

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, this was unveiled in 1992 by journalist Arne O. Holm. For this, Holm was awarded the

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. He was the father of

Ida Hjort Kraby Ida Hjort Kraby (born 2 September 1960) is a Norwegian jurist. The daughter of Pål Kraby, Ida Hjort Kraby graduated from the University of Oslo as cand.jur. in 1988. She had worked as a research assistant there from 1986 to 1987 and was hired as ...

. He died in August 2009.

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1942 births 2009 deaths 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople 20th-century Norwegian lawyers People from Lillehammer {{norway-business-bio-stub