The police have never commented on the charges against the man. Anne-Elisabeth Hagen disappeared from Lørenskog on 31 October 2018. Only several months later, in January 2019, did the police go public and confirm the disappearance. The case was investigated in complete secrecy. In fear that the person or persons behind the disappearance would harm Anne-Elisabeth Hagen. The police’s main theory was that the 68-year-old had been abducted and that the perpetrators would have paid tens of millions in cryptocurrency to return her. news can now tell completely new details from the secret investigation. Already late in the autumn after the disappearance, cryptocurrency was a key clue in the investigation. A stolen ID had been used to create accounts where the cryptocurrency was to be deposited. VG wrote about this first, but news was also aware of the matter. The police believe it is likely that the 20-year-old has a role Shortly after the disappearance, a man in his 20s was charged in the case. On the man’s PC, the police had found the stolen identity used to create the crypto accounts. The ransom money for Hagen was to be transferred to these. On 31 October it will be four years since the disappearance. The police have never commented on the charges against the man in his 20s. – In a long-term investigation of this scope, where we stand without a solution, it is natural that several people are checked in and out of the case, police inspector Lars Reinhold-Østbye to news. In order to be able to carry out the investigations that the police believe are necessary, a number of investigative steps are carried out against a person. This gives the person in question a status as the accused, says Reinhold-Østbye. – We therefore do not wish to provide continuous updates on the number of accused in the case, says Reinhold-Østbye. THE LAWYER: The man in his 20s’ defense says that his client expects the charges to be dropped. Photo: Per Øyvind Fange / news The defense attorney for the man in his 20s believes he has nothing to do with the case. – He has cooperated with the police to the highest degree. He feels that he has been checked out, but not that the charges have been formally dropped, says his defender Bjørn Robert Antonsen. The accused 20-year-old expects it to be. He has experienced it as dramatic, says the defender. – Nobody thinks he has anything to do with this. Man charged in May In May this year, a man in his 30s was charged. It was only earlier this month that the charge became known. The police have charged him with complicity in the murder of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen. The stolen passport was also found on his PC. – The sum of the information means that we believe it is likely that he has a role, police inspector Lars Reinholdt-Østbye told news earlier this month. He was later charged with two ID violations. One in 2018 and one in the summer of 2021. Both are linked to Ole Henrik Golf. In April 2013, Ole Henrik Golf was exposed to ID theft. The identity has been misused in several Norwegian criminal cases. Among other things, the person or people behind Anne-Elisabeth Hagen’s disappearance. The man’s defense attorney, Marius Dietrichson, says his client denies guilt. Four charges The charge against the 20-year-old and the charge against the 30-year-old means that there are now a total of four known charges. From before, Anne Elisabeth Hagen’s husband, Tom Hagen, has been charged with murder or complicity in murder. And the so-called “crypto man” was charged with this. The “crypto man’s” charge was changed to include complicity in serious deprivation of liberty. Both deny criminal guilt.
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Secret charge in the Disappearance case – man charged shortly after Anne-Elisabeth disappeared
