Tom Hagen (businessman) explained

Tom Hagen (born 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, of his wife Anne-Elisabeth Hagen. However, he was released shortly after he was arrested, though he is still a suspect, as of 2023.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norway: Tycoon's wife likely killed, abduction may be fake. 26 June 2019. The Seattle Times. 28 April 2020.
2. Web site: Tom Hagen. Kapital. nb. 10 January 2019.
3. News: Wife of Norwegian billionaire missing for 10 weeks – police fear kidnapping for ransom. 9 January 2019. Verdens Gang. no. 10 January 2019.
4. Web site: 'Abducted' wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen may have been killed, say police. 26 June 2019. Sky News.
5. News: Norwegian police have 'no signs of life' of missing woman. Associated Press. 28 February 2019. The Guardian.
6. https://www.thelocal.no/20200428/norway-billionaire-tom-hagen-seized-over-wifes-disappearance Norway millionaire Tom Hagen arrested over wife's murder
7. News: Rankin. Jennifer. Norwegian tycoon charged over wife's disappearance in 2018. 2020-04-28. The Guardian. 2020-04-28. en-GB. 0261-3077.