Tom Hagen (born 1950) is a Norwegian businessman. 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.
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
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. In June 2019, Norwegian police said that they could not rule out that the alleged abduction had simply been a cover for her death.
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.
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