Tom Hagen (businessman)

Tom Hagen (born 14. April 1950) is a Norwegian businessman.[1] In 1992, he co-founded Elkraft AS, an electric company. Hagen works in property development. The financial magazine Kapital lists him as Norway's 172nd richest person.[2]

His wife, Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, was supposedly kidnapped on 31 October 2018 and has not been seen since. The suspected kidnappers demanded a nine million euro ransom paid in the cryptocurrency Monero.[3] In June 2019, Norwegian police said that they could not rule out that the alleged abduction had simply been a cover for her death.[4][5]

On 28 April 2020, he was arrested and charged with murder, or complicity to murder his wife. However, he was released shortly after he was arrested, though he was still a suspect until 18 October 2024, when the charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ "Norway: Tycoon's wife likely killed, abduction may be fake". The Seattle Times. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Tom Hagen". Kapital (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Wife of Norwegian billionaire missing for 10 weeks – police fear kidnapping for ransom". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  4. ^ "'Abducted' wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen may have been killed, say police". Sky News. 26 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Norwegian police have 'no signs of life' of missing woman". The Guardian. Associated Press. 28 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Norway police drop case against a tycoon suspected in connection with his wife's disappearance". CTVNews. 2024-10-18. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  7. ^ Sundby, Jens Christian (2024-10-18). "Lørenskog-forsvinningen: Riksadvokaten henlegger saken mot Tom Hagen". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  8. ^ Norway millionaire Tom Hagen arrested over wife's murder The Local Retrieved 29 April 2020
  9. ^ Rankin, Jennifer (2020-04-28). "Norwegian tycoon charged over wife's disappearance in 2018". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-28.


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