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Norwegian MP quits over hotline to fortune-tellers
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-10 10:38

OSLO  - A Norwegian politician said Thursday she would not be seeking re-election after being forced to admit she had ran up a large phone bill making calls to fortune-tellers.


A fortune teller reading the palms of a customer. A Norwegian politician said Thursday she would not be seeking re-election after being forced to admit she had ran up a large phone bill making calls to fortune-tellers. [Agencies] 

Sarah Khaen spent several hundred thousand Norwegian kroner on the calls in recent years, the tabloid Verdens Gang reported.

In a single quarter, her phone bill came to 48,000 kroner (almost 6,000 euros), spending more than twice as much as her parliamentary colleagues.

Her calls became so frequent that many fortune-tellers told her to stop ringing, the Norwegian daily said.

Having denied the story for a long time, Khaen released a statement, admitting that "a large part" of her expenses had been spent on "conversations with psychics and fortune-tellers.

"I really regret it," she said in the statement, promising to reimburse the additional cost in her bill.