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The man was arrested Thursday night, but on Saturday night Norwegian police announced that he had been released.
According to various Norwegian media, the man is now suspected of aiding in human trafficking, not for having murdered Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.
He is said to be in a relationship with Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s murderous husband, Tom Hagen, and to have IT and cryptocurrency knowledge.
“Several interrogations were carried out, the last one on Saturday afternoon, where the man declared himself to the police. He was released because the police do not believe there is a risk of destruction of evidence,” the police previously wrote in a statement. of press on Saturday.
I wanted to arrest Hagen again
Police investigators wanted to re-arrest Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen when he was released from the Oslo detention center on Friday afternoon, but prosecutors denied it. NRK reports.
– It is an important principle that the prosecution follow the decisions of the court. Then, under the circumstances, I felt it was right not to arrest him directly after his release, prosecutor Kirsti Guttormsen explained to the Norwegian public service company.
Hagen has previously been arrested on suspicion of murder, or assisted with the murder of his wife. After the Norwegian HD rejected the prosecutor’s appeal of the first instance court decision (corresponding to the court of law), his lawyer picked him up Friday out of detention.
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Anne-Elisabeth Hagen has been missing since the fall of 2018. The disappearance was classified for months as a kidnapping and huge resources were spent to find it, but to no avail. Tom Hagen found a letter demanding the payment of millions of kronor in cryptocurrency while discovering that his wife had disappeared, he said.
So-called hijackers have also used a digital platform to communicate with the police and the Hagen family.
Later, the police began investigating the case as an alleged murder.
Fixed: An earlier version of the text indicated the wrong day of the week for the man’s arrest at the age of 30.
Anne-Elisabeth Hagen disappeared in late October 2018. Traces of blood were found inside the house, cable ties were found outside, and police suspected she had been taken against her will in a car.
Last summer, the police changed their main theory from being kidnapped to being killed.
According to the World Gang newspaper, the police were already pointing the suspects at the husband and intercepting Tom Hagen’s home.
The police considered that it was impossible for Norwegian criminals to carry out a similar crime and focused their eyes on criminal environments abroad. The FBI in the American, British and German police has been involved in the case, as have the Swedish and Danish police, writes the Dagbladet newspaper.
Locations in Denmark have been searched where sources stated that Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was detained. The Norwegian police have also been to Sweden several times during the course of the case.
Tom Hagen was arrested on suspicion of murder or involvement in a murder on April 28, but released again on May 8.
On May 7, according to the World Gang newspaper, a man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of killing Anne-Elisabeth Hagen or participating in her death. The man was released on May 9.
