A man at the center of a Danish media storm over Greenland said he has never worked as a covert operative and that his business there has always been open. He said the accusations that he was a U.S. spy are false, and that his travel, meetings and work have been visible for years.

He said his job has been to help draw investment into mining and infrastructure, not to carry out clandestine work. He said he routinely appears on daytime television, travels to Greenland with his family, and meets Greenlandic officials for dinner in public restaurants with their wives and children.

He said he first learned of the allegations through media reports and not through any official channel. He also said he has never been brought in for questioning by Danish or Greenlandic authorities, even though he has been told by numerous insiders that he is being monitored.

The dispute arrives as Greenland draws more attention from Washington, investors and companies looking at the island's strategic value. The man said his involvement began during the first Trump administration, when he was tasked with understanding Greenland's resources and strategic potential, before continuing the work in the private sector with a focus on critical minerals and resource development.

He said that path led to GreenMet, the advisory firm he founded in 2021, which works on advancing critical materials projects in the United States and allied countries, including Greenland. He said the firm does not act on behalf of any government and does not support any effort to promote Greenlandic secession, adding that Greenland's political future should be decided by Greenlanders within the framework of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The broader fight over his role is tied to what Greenland now represents to outside powers. He said the island is no longer being ignored, and that the West is increasingly worried about supply chains still heavily exposed to China. Washington has taken an interest in Greenland, he said, and American investors have as well, making the political and commercial stakes harder to separate.

That leaves the core tension unresolved for the public, even if he says the answer is straightforward: a business figure who says he is working openly in a place where geopolitics, resources and suspicion now overlap.