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It is difficult to describe the murder victim Tom Hagen’s prison history as more than just a heavy defeat for the police.
They are still of the opinion that the 70-year-old billionaire is behind the murder of his missing wife Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, and was “surprised” that the Eidsivating Court of Appeal decided to release Hagen on Thursday.
Two of the team’s three judges found not apparent reason to suspect that Hagen is behind his wife’s disappearance. A judge disagreed, but that was not enough to confirm the decision of the Lower Roman District Court to detain Hagen for four weeks.
Police appealed to the Supreme Court, but to no avail.
Tom Hagen was released from Oslo prison on Friday as a free but still murderous man.
New arrest
The day before, a man in his 30s was arrested and charged with murder or complicity in the murder.
Dagbladet is aware that the man has a relationship with Tom Hagen, but that he is not close. The police reported after the arrest that they have experience in cryptocurrency and IT.
On Saturday, however, the man was released after being questioned. On the same day, the charge was changed to serious detention or complicity.
The 30-year-old man has not previously been punished and dismissed the murder charge as “absurd”, according to his defender Dag Svensson.
The Eastern Police District declined to comment on the release.
– At least ten meetings
On Sunday, NRK reports, based on unspecified sources, that Hagen met the cryptomagonator call at least ten times before Anne-Elisabeth Hagen went missing.
According to NRK information, the meetings, at least one of which must have taken place at Hagens’ workplace, were about cryptocurrency-related business activities.
Neither Hagens advocate Svein Holden nor “encrypted man” advocate Dag Svensson will comment on the NRK information.
Believe in helpers
A general expert corps that Dagbladet interviewed after Hagen’s arrest said it seems unlikely that only one person was behind the disappearance of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.
Everyone has also emphasized the importance of tracking down potential conspirators.
– The task of the police now is to search for any accomplices, who have not only assisted in planning, but also in the execution itself and have provided further assistance, crime writer and former police investigator Jørn Lier Horst told Dagbladet.
In particular, two well-known tracks have led experts to come to this assumption, because new shadows are cast on new old, bright tracks:
Tom Hagen’s so-called cryptocurrency track and movements on October 31, the day the police assume Anne-Elisabeth Hagen went missing.
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As VG reported last week, there are several holes in the timeline of Tom Hagen’s movements on October 31.
Since then, it has been known that Hagen left the house of the married couple at 09:00 this October. Just a few minutes later, he arrived at his workplace in the so-called Futurum building in Lørenskog.
The last known sign of life for Anne-Elisabeth Hagen is a phone conversation with a family member at 09.14 the same morning.
At 9.48 a.m., electrician and neighbor Tommy Skansen called Anne-Elisabeth, but received no response, VG wrote last year.
At 13:30 Tom Hagen returned to his home in Sloraveien 4. Then Anne-Elisabeth was no longer at the house.
If Tom Hagen himself were at work, who could have moved Anne-Elisabeth Hagen out of the house?
“Analog” man
– Tom was out of the old school, just. In every possible way, a former Tom Hagen business partner tells Dagbladet.
The garden was always ready for meetings, the source says, but the preparations were written in ballpoint pens, the same books that used to take meticulous notes from the same meetings.
Others in the business circle around Tom Hagen, whom Dagbladet has interviewed, also have similar experiences with Hagen. They describe him as an “analog” man.
Against Dagbladet last weekend, the defendant argued that Hagen’s digital experience speaks for him. not lies behind the wrongdoing.
“In the past 17 months, I have examined your digital competence well, and in my opinion, there is a good argument that you cannot have misled the police in the way that the case requires,” Holden said.
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Attached to wiring
So it seems bad for more than just the Hagens business circle that he himself has managed to use one or more types of cryptocurrencies.
The ransom claim of approximately nine million euros should have been claimed in the Monero cryptocurrency.
Communication between the so-called counterpart and the Hagen family must have been in part through Bitcoin payments, where a specific sum should correspond to a specific message, according to VG.
Police believe that monitoring of the cryptocurrency indicates that attempts have been made to cheat.
– It is justified to link this to misleading too. One may wonder if anyone was really intended to be paid or if this was just to trick the police, prosecutor Haris Hrenovica of the Eastern Police District told Dagbladet last week.
“The problem” with Monero
Monero is a much less used and less valuable cryptocurrency than Bitcoin. It still has something like Bitcoin not to have.
– Bitcoin is the big and famous one, but it is also much easier to track. Therefore, Monero came at the time, but was much more focused on privacy. The idea is that it will be much more difficult to find out who is behind the transactions, says Torer Henning Ueland, IT expert at Aller.
He explains that it takes a long time and understanding for Monero to make secure transactions.
You must create a “wallet” form for the electronic currency and provide the counterparty with an address for this “wallet”. Then the currency must be exchanged for another currency. That in itself is a difficult exercise.
Ueland also says that transactions as large, as many millions of euros, will probably increase the price of Monero. This could raise awareness, for example, of the authorities.
– Everyone can probably learn something that interests them. Then they will probably be able to learn how to sell and buy cryptocurrencies. The challenge is to make it safe, says Ueland.
Tracking down the people who received the money is a priority for the police.
“We have done and are doing investigative steps to try to trace who is the” suspected counterpart, “that is, the person (s) who sent the messages, prosecutor Hrenovica says.
! Learn more about the “problems” with Monero in the video at the top of the case!
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