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This blog is written about a Norwegian guy called Åsmund Skuterud (Global Oslo Music, Koeju, Jazz in Khartoum) to expose his risky behaviors to the current / future victims and help the survivors. Åsmund Skuterud has hidden all the information to mislead the victims to keep the exploitative relationship with him and pushed them to engage in risky sexual intercourse by deception and coercion. His action leaded to a serious invasion of autonomy or control of the female body people's life, that is considered as a date violence and also a rape. Additionally, he abused teenagers sexually and has committed a statutory rape.

His long-term enablers Simon Matthew Valentine (aka Simon Matthew Jones-Tyridal), Kjetil Jerve, Oddrun Lilja, Safaa Al Saadi, Sidiki Camara and Wei Ting Zeng (aka Wei Ting Tseng), people in Oslo Jazz scene, Global Oslo Music (Malika Makouf Rasmussen), Khartoum Contemporary Art Center (Cassius Fadlabi and Karin Erixon), Music Marketing Method (Laverne Wyatt), and Mr. Skuterud's friends came to us saying that this is "a harassment and bullying" and have been trying to hide the fact, even though we are providing a very detailed story with evidence to prove Mr. Skuterud's crime and this is the only way that the victims in different countries can speak out. 

This is one of the reasons why the survivors don't want to tell their experience to the public. However, we have many courageous people who have tried to support us. We really appreciate them.

This blog will be kept until he admits what he has done and gives a proper apology to all the victims.

We are still waiting for Åsmund Skuterud and his enablers(mainly Simon Matthew Valentine, Kjetil Jerve and Wei Ting Zeng, Global Oslo Music, and Khartoum Contemporary Art Center in Oslo)' apology for the following inadequate behaviors:


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Part 1: The Original Observation

Participant observation about Asmund Skuterud (Koeju)

This is a record of the one-year participant observation about Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju) in the period September 2015-October 2016. The purpose of this study is to understand the subject by interacting with him and observing his words and behaviors. It will be written by describing some main events and adding participant's interpretation. The study revealed that Mr. Skuterud's gender violence, date rapes and a statutory rape in various countries.
The limitation of complete participant observation study exists, however, the study achieved a certain level of 'objectivity' by nine survivors' active testimonials. To the original research for one year, the extra data obtained from the interviews with the people involved has been added as a process of cross-checking. Also, the researcher tried to have conversation with Åsmund Skuterud four times and he has not tried to show any evidence that can deny the contents of this blog until the present moment. In the beginning the author was collecting the information about the situation, interviewing the people involved with Åsmund Skuterud for one month (October 13-November 14, 2016). Later, his additional reaction data has been added since November 2016, as a post-observational report.

Medical Record about High Risk HPV and Asmund Skuterud's Risky Behaviors

This is the author's personal medical record that proves the transmission of HPV by Åsmund Skuterud and the evidence about his risky/irresponsible behaviors as a supportive data for the original observation. Until now we have four victims with high risk HPV (type 16, 52, 66) diagnosis and one of them is in CIN1 status.

Part 2. External Evidence from Our Readers

The First Thank-you Message:

After publishing the one-year observation on this blog in October 2016, some people contacted us telling they had evidence to prove it. And the first thank-you message from a Taiwanese reader arrived. It says "There would be no more girls suffering from deception, fears of disease, and disbelief in humanity".

The Conversation with A Person Who was in Åsmund Skuterud's Party:

One week later since the first thank-you message was published, a Vietnamese girl, who had met Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju) twice, contacted us. However, the person mentioned an information that the author had never given to her and also changed her attitude suddenly during the conversation. Her reaction showed clearly Asmund Skuterud's intervention. Later, the individual agreed with the interpretation in April 2017. 

Another Support from A Reader:

In January and February 2017, several people who were involved with Åsmund Skuterud contacted us. In February 2017, the author went to meet one of his teenager victims in person. All conversation was legally recorded.

The Second Contact by Åsmund Skuterud's Party:

On March 3-4, a Norwegian guy contacted us on Instagram, claiming our victim community is a harassment and bullying. The person denied the relationship with Koeju. However, we found that this individual is related to Asmund Skuterud in May 2017.

Another Message to Prove Åsmund Skuterud's Behaviors:

In March 2017, a Taiwanese reader who was involved with Simon Matthew Valentine (Asmund Skuterud's coworker in Koèju project) sent us another message to support this blog.

Date Rape Testimony and Additional HPV Infection
In April 2017, we received a serious e-mail from a Taiwanese date rape victim by Asmund Skuterud and also a report of an additional type of HPV infection.

Testimony by an Ex-coworker of Åsmund Skuterud
In May 2017, we received an email from one of Åsmund Skuterud's ex-coworkers. We contacted her during the period from May 31 to July 2. After publishing this post, the subject Mr. Skuterud sent her a manipulative message that says "I did think of you as a friend, AND, smarter than that." on July 5, 2017. Addtionally, Mr. Skuterud contacted her coworkers and told them about her report to threaten her.

Åsmund Skurerud's Recent Attempt to Hide His Sexual Assault

Mr. Skuterud's attempt to hide his sexual assault outside of Norway. (September, 2017 - February, 2018). For more details, see the post-observation part of Participant Observation About Åsmund Skuterud.

Part 3. Further Readings

How Sexual Assault Survivors Feel about Themselves [Youtube]

Women Tell Us Why They Didn’t Report Their Sexual Assault [Youtube]

On the Feedback to the Writing Methods of This Blog

Contact

metoo.center/Åsmund_Skuterud (anonymous platform to report)
www.facebook.com/koejuvictims
www.instagram.com/koejuvictims
www.twitter.com/koejuelectronic

If you need any kind of help, please do not hesitate to contact us. on the following email address: laurawillson1357@gmail.com
Or, you can also report directly to the Norwegian Police:
https://www.politiet.no/en/services/tip-off-norwegian-police/

The author of this blog really appreciate all of our interviewees and those who have sent valuable feedback / thank-you messages. Thanks for reading.

Recent Reaction of Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju, Jazz in Khartoum, Global Oslo Music, Khartoum Contemporary Art Center)

April, 2018

April 5, 2018

Khartoum Contemporary Art Center again started publishing their "feminism as fashion" posts (April 5, 28) without any official apology to us.

March, 2018

March 25, 2018

A Message is sent to Khartoum Contemporary Art Center (Karin Erixon) since they have not taken any action about the case although they keep supporting the sexual violence victims nominally.

: "Hello. We clearly see that you don't have any will to take action on the perpetrator Åsmund Skuterud's case. At the moment your organization knew about the accusation, the internal investigation should have conducted and also there had to be a protocol to handle this sexual violence. Additionally, you have not warned that the Mr. Skuterud is with sexual allegations to the participants of Jazz in Khartoum. We see your organization have a big part of responsibility in aspect of this case. Hence, we will include the criticism of your organization in our further public action. Regards."

Khartoum Contemporary Art Center's party has not responded to this message.

 

February, 2018.

February 13, 2018

Den Mangfaldige Scenen informed us that they decided not to involve Åsmund Skuterud in their project, after their internal investigation about his sexual assault.

February 14, 2018

We had a conversation with Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. They confirmed that they have not conducted any kind of internal investigation on the perpetrator Åsmund Skuterud and his enablers since June, 2017.

January, 2018. 

Global Oslo Music (mainly Malika Makouf Rasmussen) tried to separate the name of Koeju from their brand as a way of crisis management, without any official statement. 

January 26, 2018

A Norwegian musician helped us to tip off Norwegian police to Mr. Skuterud's case. We closed our private investigation.

December, 2017

December 6, 2017 

Mr. Skuterud's party and Global Oslo Music reported our Facebook page three times after we sent a complaint letter to Norwegian Music Fund (Musikkfondene.no). 

December 12, 2017 

We sent an email about Mr. Skuterud in English, directly to the Norwegian Police.

December 19, 2017

Åsmund Skuterud started a new band called Aqsaq with Safaa Al Sadi and Jonas Cambien. Khartoum Contemporary Art Center supported them to have a concert officially.

November, 2017

November 1, 2017
Mr. Skuterud reported our blog and Facebook page. The blog was blocked until November 7, 2017.

November 9, 2017
We had a conversation with Mr. Skuterud's party on Instagram.
(*She didn't permit to publish the detail of our conversation.)

On the same day, Mr. Skuterud sent a message to one of our informants:
"Hi, please reply to me about this. Just basically tell me if you have said those things if it is a mistake/misunderstanding?" (1 hour and 30 minutes later) "I was pretty shocked when I saw those things written about you/us. Both Simon and I could kind of not believe that you would write those things."
His message didn't include any kind of apology about his sexual misconduct nor remorse.

(*We don't upload the screenshot because of the informant's request.)

November 26, 2017
Mr. Skuterud's party reported our Facebook page.

Captured on Dec 7, 2017

October, 2017

October 2, 2017
Mr. Skuterud's party reported our blog as 'harassment' again. The blog blocked approximately for 2 days until October 4, 2017.

October 16, 2017
We expressed our discomfort about the support for Mr. Skuterud on Khartoum Contemporary Art Center's Facebook page. They deleted our comment.

October 19, 2017
Mr. Skuterud published an ironic post that says he supports "Me too campaign", that has a similar purpose of our blog.

October 28, 2017
We expressed our discomfort on Mr. Skuterud's Facebook post non-anonymously, "Your victims are suffering from trauma while you are celebrating." Mr. Skuterud deleted the comment.

September, 2017

In August - September 2017, people who have been involved in Koeju project (mainly Kjetil Jerve, Harald Lassen, Bendik Baksaas and Christian Meaas Svendsen) have tried to hide Mr. Skuterud crime and promote Jazz in Khartoum.

September 18, 2017, Mr. Skuterud's party reported our blog as 'harassment'. The blog blocked approximately for 2 weeks until September 29.

November 12, 2017

Testimony by an Ex-coworker of Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum)

On May 25-26, we received an email from one of Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum)'s ex-coworkers, who was sexually involved with him once. She asked us to have a chat to share more details so that we had four more contacts during the period from May 31 to July 2.


In her testimony, the subject Åsmund Skuterud showed some characteristic antisocial traits:


1. Exploitative Relationships to Gain Personal Achievement

• Our informant had the first encounter with the subject Asmund Skuterud in July 2016 after a Koèju concert. It was a meeting with a business purpose. She described that the first sexual encounter with him was "accidental". 
• In July 2016, she started to work with the subject to book the gigs in Asia. During the booking process, he persistently asked her to come to Taiwan and told her that she should stay at his flat when she visiting since the tour earning is small. His message implied another sexual encounter. 
• The informant also testified that she observed many of his "friends (with benefits)" at Koèju concerts and his coworker Simon Matthew Valentine (aka Simon Matthew Jones-Tyridal) looked like being got used to see that scene.

According to her testimony and the collected information that the majority of his female coworkers in Koèju project have sexually involved with him, we could find two behavioral patterns related to interpersonal manipulation:

[1] The subject tends to approach the female body people in the music field sexually / romantically with intention and tries to make them get involved in Koèju project.
[2] The subject invites all non-field people who are "sexually / romantically" involved with him at the moment to Koèju concerts.



2. Risky Sexual Behavior

Before having the first sexual intercourse with Åsmund Skuterud in July 2016, our informant asked him several times if he had a girlfriend / any other regular partner and if he had multiple sexual partners since she had a serious health problem caused by her past partner's risky sexual behaviors. The subject Mr. Skuterud answered her, "I had a girlfriend before and I don't have any partner now."

After the sexual intercourse, she had a conversation with Mr. Skuterud approximately for 3 hours. During the conversation, he told her "All the people who sleep with me become my friends. Think you have a boyfriend here." Additionally, he mentioned that he normally meets sexual partners on the dating app called Tinder every time he arrives in a new country and he had been in a casual relationship with someone until the day before he met her and he didn't see any problem with that.

After receiving the message from the researcher in November 2016, she went to get the Pap Smear / HPV DNA test and got the diagnosis of high risk HPV. The result indicated a high probability that the subject Åsmund Skuterud transmitted her the virus since she had a long period of abstinence before and after the sexual encounter in July 2016. Mr. Skuterud was informed by her that she got the diagnosis of HPV type 66 in December, 2016. 



3. Pathological Deceitfulness

Her testimony proved that Åsmund Skuterud's deception was not impulsive. His lying and smear campaign were pathological and previously planned. Additionally, a strong tendency to blame others was observed:

• During the sexual encounter with our informant in July 2016, the subject kept texting a person. When she asked him who that person was, he said "It's a friend I have to answer." (*The person who he was texting at the moment was the researcher. It was a conversation about how his concert was and he answered: "It was great. The audience enjoyed the music so it was okay.") 
• In the conversation that they had after the sexual encounter, the subject mentioned about his suicidal Norwegian ex-girlfriend (*an invented story) and other girls who had problems with him. Also, he told her that his ex-girlfriend had a depression so he was having problem to organize gigs since he had to keep talking to her. 

• When our informant was working with the subject Mr. Skuterud as a booking manager in Asia, he used to give excuses such as 'He was having mental problems because of the intense stress for "helping" his suicidal ex-girlfriend. He was getting psychiatric consulting (*false statement) and also his father gave something for him to get better.'

In this part, we could observe that he doesn't feel any guilt or remorse for lying, that is a notable antisocial trait. Additionally, the subject prepared the smear campaign about the researcher previously.


His coworker Simon Matthew Valentine (aka Simon Matthew Jones-Tyridal)'s reaction, reported by our informant, also supports our analysis and shows the subject's manipulative and deceitful behavioral patterns:

• After receiving a message from the researcher in November 2016, she asked Simon Matthew Valentine about the situation. He said, "Don't answer her. I will explain everything". His explanation was that the researcher had "some very big psychological problems" and was "in a lot of emotional pain because of depression". Additionally, he described that the author of this blog was "basically trying to ruin Åsmund's life".

• During the same period in November 2016, she couldn't hear any word from the subject Åsmund Skuterud directly and he was communicating only with Simon Matthew Valentine.
• In December 2016, Mr. Skuterud called her via Skype several times to "explain" about the researcher. His explanation was basically the author of this blog had a big psychological problem and was asking a big amount of money.

In the details of this conversation between them, especially in Mr. Valentine(aka Mr. Jones-Tyridal)'s reaction, we could realize how Mr. Skuterud twisted the facts to victimize himself:

[1] Depression (unipolar) was described as a serious mental problem that could cause a violent action against others such as schizophrenia or antisocial personality disorders, with the exaggerated phrases "some very big psychological problems" and "in a lot of emotional pain because of depression". This shows that he had an intention to mislead people since he has some knowledge in clinical psychology because of his family.

[2] The researcher's claim during the period from August to October in 2016, that was asking STD / HPV exam costs and cutting the relationship off after the payment, was described as "trying to ruin Åsmund's life"

Additionally, we discovered that the subject Åsmund Skuterud used Mr. Valentine as a spokesman at the beginning and tried to control the information telling the people involved "Don't answer her". After setting the deception plan, he began to communicate with them again.



3. Irresponsibility and Inflated Self Image

Irresponsibility and grandiosity were observed in the subject's behaviors. Our informant mentioned that the subject used to act in a non-professional way in the booking process for concerts. At the same time, he showed grandiose fantasies, saying phrases such as "Do you want to be a manager of the future super-star?".

Our informant has worked with the subject Asmund Skuterud to organize the gigs in Asia since July, 2016. During the period of the booking process, he rarely answered her text and didn't give any data for the concerts within time. When she claimed about his non-professional attitude and procrastination, the subject used to give her following excuses:

1. He was busy to "help" his suicidal ex-girlfriend.
2. He was getting an intense stress.
3. He was getting psychiatric consulting and also his father gave something to help him.
4. He was having a wrist pain.

However, the communication problem with him continued. To complete booking, she had to contact his coworker Simon Matthew Valentine to organize the Koèju concerts, instead of having conversation with Mr. Skuterud. Before receiving the Facebook message from the researcher in November 2016, she already cancelled all the next programmed gigs in Asia, considering his non-professional attitude observed in this preparation process.



4. Other Aspect

• The informant reported that the subject Åsmund Skuterud contacted her with his coworker Simon Matthew Valentine's account during the period December, 2016 - February, 2017. 

This could be because he had to show his account to make other victims believe his deception and he needed to hide her existence to them. Considering that he used Mr. Valentine's account in February 2016 in Bogota, Colombia, the subject might have been using the social media accounts of Mr. Valentine for a long time to keep his manipulative relationships.


P.S. After publishing this post, the subject Mr. Skuterud sent our informant a message that says "I did think of you as a friend, AND, smarter than that." without any apology about his behaviors on July 5, 2017. On the same day, Mr. Skuterud contacted her coworkers and told them about her report to threaten her. The informant sent us a screenshot of the message on July 6, 2017. 

(*We don't upload the screenshot because of the informant's request.)


Conclusion

The testimony supports the original observation about the subject. The subject showed the characteristic traits of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder); grandiosity, attention seeking, and impaired empathy and intimacy in interpersonal interaction (APA, 2012). The newly discovered traits in this report are general irresponsibility and pathological deception. Hence, there is a possibility of comorbidity with another Cluster B personality disorder or ADHD (Turgay, A., 2004).


*Note: The mentioned mental disorders in this page is not officially diagnosed. We use their medical definitions to describe efficiently the characteristic traits of the subject Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju) and clearly limit the conclusion at the level of tendency and possibility.




References

American Psychiatric Association. (2012). DSM-IV and DSM-5 Criteria for the Personality Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Turgay, A. (2004). Treatment of comorbidity in conduct disorder with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Essential psychopharmacology, 6(5), 277-290.

July 2017

The Second Contact by Asmund Skuterud's Party - Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum) Case

This post is about the second conversation with a person in Asmund Skuterud  (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum)'s Party, who claimed that he was not related to Koeju. However, we found that this individual is related to Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum) in May 2017. The details are as following:

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On March 3-4, a Norwegian guy contacted us on Instagram, claiming our victim community is a harassment and bullying.

The individual used the same logic that the Vietnamese girl showed in our first conversation with his party. It was also a typical narcissistic flying monkey's reaction: "You are covering 1 half of the story with this "study"of yours."

Also, the individual blamed this victim community saying this is for "shaming", minimizing the victims' physical and psychological damages. 

The proper explanation about our purpose was provided to him considering his criticism. There are two points to explain: 

1. This blog is one-side story and filled only with bad stuff without having any conversation about it:

To the original research for one year, the extra data obtained from the nine interviews with the people involved has been added as a process of cross-checking. Also, the researcher tried to have conversation with Åsmund Skuterud three times and he has not tried to show any evidence that can deny the contents of this blog since October 2016.

2. The blog is not actually processing or helping with anything. This is just for shaming.

"The study (original participant observation)" is used for the base to support the purpose of blogging and revealed that Mr. Skuterud's gender violence, date rapes and a statutory rape in various countries. Additionally, the original observation encourages other victims' participation since speaking out about sexual violence / date rape is not easy for social pressure such as victim blaming. Sharing the victims' experience with others also helps their recovery.

The individual also claimed that we were using the name of Koeju to push the people to follow our agenda. It was a proper criticism so that we changed the Instagram account name to Koeju Victims.

In the final of the conversation he said, "I'm not related to any of the boys in Koeju, I like their music. So I don't know how you found me at all" denying the relationship with Koèju.

In May 2017, it was revealed that this was a false statement and he is clearly related to Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju / Jazz in Khartoum).

June 2017

Date Rape Testimony and Additional HPV Infection Report

DATE RAPE

On April 28, we received a serious e-mail from a courageous Taiwanese reader who was involved with Åsmund Skuterud (Koeju). In this email, she described how he coerced her to engage in sexual intercourse and how he abused her physically and emotionally by deception. Additionally, like the majority of our victims, she didn't get informed about his multiple sexual relationships and the risk of HPV infection. She didn't have any idea about what was happening until she found our blog.

We asked for advice of two people in Women's Studies field, who have working experience with sexual assault victims, in a very careful and cautious way to protect the victim's identity. They confirmed that this is a typical date rape case.

(We don't publish the details here since it could be a secondary victimization for her.)

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Here and now, we would like to encourage our survivors from the abusive relationship with Åsmund Skuterud (Koèju) to tell us their experience with a little bit of courage. Your identity will be strictly protected. Some victims in the countries, where an extreme rape culture still exists, may not realize their experience was a sexual violence or a rape. If you have any doubt about your experience with this guy Åsmund Skuterud, please don't hesitate to contact us. We have experienced people about sexual assault consulting.

SMEAR CAMPAIGN

In the same e-mail, this victim also testified about Åsmund Skuterud's smear campaign during the period between October and November 2016:
"He told me he spent a lot of time trying to calm down a friend in Columbia who had serious depression."

"He told me this friend was his ex-girlfriend, and was spreading rumors about him online."

This is another proof after the first testimony on his smear campaign.

ADDITIONAL HPV INFECTION (TYPE 16)

Recently, we also received  a report on the diagnosis of HPV type 16, that is highly related to cervical cancer. Until now we have four victims with high risk HPV (type 16, 52, 66) diagnosis.

We recommend that all the people who have been sexually involved with Åsmund Skuterud get a regular Pap Smear Test every 6 months, particularly those who had sexual contact with him after April 2016. Since this virus could be dormant for weeks or even for years, please be aware of the importance of the regular check-up if you already had contact with the infected person.

May 2017