Last week, Jacob Harris, an independent member of the Folketing, made massive headlines for his upcoming meeting with the Russian ambassador.
On Friday and over the weekend, he took headlines for something else: his disqualification for unfitness.
The Bankruptcy Court in Roskilde has ruled that Harris cannot serve as leader or board member in a company for the next three years and is not permitted to own a company without being personally liable.
This comes after a case involving Harris and his wife, Tetiana Harris Nielsen, and a company that they ran together, Krokodille ApS.
Tickets to Adele and foreign trips
The company, which had Nielsen registered as the chief executive officer, while Harris was the leader in practice, was declared bankrupt in November 2025.
Shortly before the bankruptcy, as reported by TV 2, 120,000 Danish kroner were moved to another company owned by Harris.
It has also been discovered, as noted by Jyllands-Posten, that the company had paid for tickets to an Adele concert, foreign trips to Dubai and Hawaii, and luxury brands.
To TV 2, the insolvency practitioner said: “The decision was entirely as expected. In my opinion, the company’s account looks more like a private account than a business account, when you look at the expenses that have been withdrawn from it.”
No impact on his seat
This decision, however, will not have any impact on Harris’ parliamentary work as a disqualification for unfitness is not a criminal conviction.
A series of rules exists in Denmark around members of the Folketing receiving criminal convictions.
Firstly, the Folketing must vote in favour of the revocation of the member’s immunity, which otherwise makes it impossible to charge a member.
Secondly, if a member is then convicted under criminal law, the Folketing can vote on whether to expel the member based on their conviction.
The last time this full process took place was in 2021 when Inger Støjberg had been sentenced to prison (which she served in home arrest) and was therefore expelled from the Folketing.
Harris used to controversy
Harris was first elected to the Folketing earlier in 2026 for the Citizens’ Party (Borgernes Parti).
However, when details emerged around Krokodille ApS, Harris was excluded from the party a mere four days after the election (understood to be a record in Danish political history).
Last week, he garnered more controversy when he announced he was planning to meet with the Russian ambassador in Denmark in November to discuss the invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen of the Moderates (Moderaterne) said of Harris: “If you take a meeting with the Russian ambassador, there is a huge risk that you make yourself a useful idiot.”
