Tom Hagen (businessman)
Tom Hagen (born 1950) is a Norwegian businessman.[1] In 1992, he co-founded , 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, of his wife Anne-Elisabeth Hagen. However, he was released shortly after he was arrested, though he is still a suspect.[6][7]
References[]
- ^ "Norway: Tycoon's wife likely killed, abduction may be fake". The Seattle Times. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Tom Hagen". Kapital (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Wife of Norwegian billionaire missing for 10 weeks – police fear kidnapping for ransom". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "'Abducted' wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen may have been killed, say police". Sky News. 26 June 2019.
- ^ "Norwegian police have 'no signs of life' of missing woman". The Guardian. Associated Press. 28 February 2019.
- ^ Norway millionaire Tom Hagen arrested over wife's murder The Local Retrieved 29 April 2020
- ^ 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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