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When Tom Hagen returned home on October 31, 2018, he found a letter.
He said his wife, Anne-Elisabeth, had been kidnapped. He had to pay nine million euros in monero cryptocurrency to bring her home alive, the letter said.
At the current exchange rate, it amounts to NOK 100 million.
For almost eight months, the police said externally that they were investigating the case as a kidnapping with an economic motive, but at the end of June last year they changed the main hypothesis.
The children of Hagen in a new encounter with the police
Police Inspector Tommy Brøske told the public that they now thought it was murder. Furthermore, the police believed that no kidnapping had ever been carried out, but that it had been manipulated to conceal what was in fact a murder.
A week and a half later, Tom Hagen received an email.
Lowered requirement
It was 5:52 PM on Monday, July 8, when Hagen received the encrypted email, according to a note Hagen himself sent to police last fall.
The note consists of Hagen’s own thoughts and opinions, but is written by someone in his immediate circle.
The text of the email is, like the threatening letter that was in the house eight months earlier, written in broken Norwegian. In this message, the counterpart expresses that it is willing to reduce the price by 40 percent.
As the billionaire interprets the July email, he believes the other party is now demanding € 5.4 million, not € 9 million, as the threatening letter did.
With this, the price has been lowered by 3.6 million euros, which is equivalent to 40 million crowns at the current exchange rate. The remaining claim is then for NOK 60 million.
At the same time, the other party opened to negotiate this sum, according to Hagen’s notes. Words like “flexible pricing” are used.
Hagen must also pay a deposit.
“Thief’s banal language”
In the note, Hagen also writes about how he interprets the content of the email. He experiences that the author plays with emotions, in part because there is a writing that his wife has had to wait a long time.
Furthermore, it appears that Anne-Elisabeth Hagen is in need of medical treatment beyond what the kidnappers can offer her.
“Can a woman be a letter writer?” Hagen asks in the note.
According to the billionaire, the content of the email got into him.
Police seized parts of toilets and bathroom doors
Hagen also reacts to the language of the letter, which he believes to be “banal thief language” with “almost cartoonish expressions.” In some places, the letter’s author formulates himself as an “Andeby villain” would, Hagen believes.
The day after receiving the email, on July 9, he went to Kripos in Oslo and transferred just over NOK 10 million to the other party. This was, as TV 2 understands it, a deposit.
With this, the billionaire expressed his desire to start negotiations to take his wife home.
Neither Hagen’s defender, Svein Holden, nor Police Inspector Agnes Beate Hemiø in the Eastern Police District want to comment on this case.
You think you are fooling the police
Nine months after he paid NOK 10 million for his wife’s signs of life, Hagen himself was charged with murder or complicity in murder. He denies criminal guilt and believes that the police are misguided.
A few hours after the arrest on April 28 this year, the police repeated what they had said earlier: that the case bears the mark of a planned hoax.
In other words: they believe that Hagen is behind the murder and that he has also misled the police.
We know this about police evidence
The billionaire himself denies having anything to do with the disappearance. After eleven days in custody, he was released because the Eidsivating Court of Appeal ruled that the evidence against him was invalid.
I have to move home
Almost a year and eleven months after the disappearance, Hagen is still charged. Neither he nor his children are willing to go to new police interrogations as the situation is now.
On Thursday, however, Hagen’s three sons were in a meeting with the police at the Lørenskog bailiff’s office. It was the police who took the initiative of the meeting.
However, child assistance lawyer Ståle Kihle says the meeting did not change his perception of the police, who believe he has a tunnel view.
He begged the police to delete the details of the interrogation.
The billionaire was allowed to move home himself last Friday. The police had seized his home since the arrest on April 28. Meanwhile, the house has been turned upside down. Police have described Sloraveien 4 as the most investigated crime scene in Norway.
– I’ve seen the house as it is now. It is not very visible that it was investigated there. I have also spoken with Tom Hagen. He believes it will be good to return and I hope that all the press respects his desire for privacy and that of his family in the future, said defender Svein Holden in connection with the handover of the house.
