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Norwegian police arrested one of the country’s richest businessmen, whose wife went missing in 2018, on suspicion of murder or complicity.
Tom Hagen, 70, was on his way to work when he was captured.
The businessman’s wife, Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, disappeared from her home on October 31, 2018, and has not been found since. The case was originally handled as a kidnapping, but police announced last June that the woman may have been killed and that more work was being done on the assumption that her disappearance was only to cover up the alleged murder.
“Hagen’s suspicion has only grown over time,” prosecutor Aase Kjustad Eriksson said at a press conference on Tuesday. He also announced that the police would soon search the couple’s home in Lorenskogi, Akershus county, not far from Oslo.
Hagen will be questioned in pretrial detention on Wednesday. It is not yet known whether he pleads guilty.
“There was no kidnapping … it was part of a deliberately planned hoax,” said Tommy Broske, head of the investigation. He said that so far there have been no other arrests in the case.
In 2018, the alleged hijacker claimed the ransom in an electronic cryptocurrency that is difficult to trace.
The police did not make the disappearance public at first, only appealing to the public in January 2019, asking if anyone had witnessed a suspicious incident at the Hagen home to report.
Tom Hagen is an investor interested in power generation and the real estate market. The financial portal E24 wrote in November last year that, according to her tax return, her assets amounted to NOK 916 million (approximately HUF 28 billion), making her the 74th richest person in Norway. (MTI)
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