Tom Hagen (businessman)

{{Short description|Norwegian businessman (born 1950)}}

Tom Hagen (born 14. April 1950) is a Norwegian businessman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/police-tycoons-wife-likely-killed-abduction-may-be-fake/|title=Norway: Tycoon's wife likely killed, abduction may be fake|date=26 June 2019|website=The Seattle Times|accessdate=28 April 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://kapital.no/people-index/tom-hagen|title=Tom Hagen|website=Kapital|language=nb|access-date=10 January 2019}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vg.no/i/0Eavkg|title=Wife of Norwegian billionaire missing for 10 weeks – police fear kidnapping for ransom|date=9 January 2019|work=Verdens Gang|language=no|access-date=10 January 2019}} In June 2019, Norwegian police said that they could not rule out that the alleged abduction had simply been a cover for her death.{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/abducted-wife-of-norwegian-billionaire-tom-hagen-may-have-been-killed-say-police-11749421|title='Abducted' wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen may have been killed, say police|date=26 June 2019|website=Sky News}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/28/norwegian-police-have-no-signs-of-life-of-missing-woman-anne-elisabeth-falkevik-hagen|title=Norwegian police have 'no signs of life' of missing woman|agency=Associated Press|date=28 February 2019|work=The Guardian}}

On 28 April 2020, he was arrested and charged with murder, or complicity to murder his wife. However, he was released shortly after he was arrested, though he was still a suspect until 18 October 2024, when the charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-18 |title=Norway police drop case against a tycoon suspected in connection with his wife’s disappearance |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/norway-police-drop-case-against-a-tycoon-suspected-in-connection-with-his-wife-s-disappearance-1.7078289 |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Sundby |first=Jens Christian |date=2024-10-18 |title=Lørenskog-forsvinningen: Riksadvokaten henlegger saken mot Tom Hagen |url=https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/lorenskog-forsvinningen_-na-har-riksadvokaten-avgjort-saken-mot-tom-hagen-1.17086748 |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=NRK |language=nb-NO}}[https://www.thelocal.no/20200428/norway-billionaire-tom-hagen-seized-over-wifes-disappearance Norway millionaire Tom Hagen arrested over wife's murder] The Local Retrieved 29 April 2020{{Cite news|last=Rankin|first=Jennifer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/norwegian-tycoon-tom-hagen-arrested-over-wifes-disappearance-in-2018|title=Norwegian tycoon charged over wife's disappearance in 2018|date=2020-04-28|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-04-28|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}