Career
Prior to that, he became Minister for the Environment following the 2007 Danish parliamentary election. The affair happened in the 2011 Danish parliamentary election and involved the head of SKAT (The Danish tax agency) Copenhagen (Erling Andersen), the Permanent Secretary of State in the Ministry of Taxes (Peter Loft) and the spindoctor of Troels Lund Poulsen (Peter Arnfeldt). In the Danish media he is known as "Trolex", because he accepted a Rolex watch as a gift and thereby exploited his political position.