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		</div><p>One of Norway’s wealthiest men is being held in connection with the suspected murder of his wife, who has been missing since 2018.</p>
<p>Tom Hagen, a media-shy real estate investor and owner of an electric company, was arrested on his way to work, chief police investigator Tommy Broeske said.</p>
<p>Police first reported that Anne-Elizabeth Falkevik Hagen, 69, had been abducted in October, but made a public appeal in January 2019 when hundreds of tips came in.</p>
<p>Mr Broeske told a press conference: <em>“The case is characterised by a clearly planned deception.</em></p>
<p><em>“As other hypotheses have been weakened, suspicions against Tom Hagen have gradually been strengthened.”</em></p>
<p>Prosecutor Aase Kjustad Eriksson said authorities would seek to have Hagen held for four weeks in pretrial custody and that more arrests were possible.</p>
<p>Police declined to elaborate on a motive due to the ongoing investigation.</p>
<p>The woman that Hagen had married at age 19 disappeared from the couple’s home in Loerenskog, east of Oslo, authorities said.</p>
<p>A ransom for her release was demanded, police said in January 2019 but declined to give the amount.</p>
<p>Norwegian newspaper VG said it was for 9 million kroner (€800k) to be paid in cryptocurrency.</p>
<p>Police eventually released security videos of men walking back and forth outside Hagen’s workplace.</p>
<p>Officers and police dogs were also seen scouring the grounds around the couple’s home and divers went into a nearby pond as police led a large investigation at home and abroad.</p>
<p>In June 2019, police changed their main hypothesis because of the absence of any signs that the missing woman was still alive or any recent contacts with the alleged kidnappers.</p>
<p>They believe Falkevik Hagen, who has never been found, had been killed and said they <em>“cannot exclude a staged kidnapping to hide it”.</em></p>
<p>Tom Hagen, the second-oldest in a farming family of 12 children, made his money from a real estate business which he started in 1978.</p>
<p>His fortune is estimated to be worth nearly 1.7 billion kroner (€150m).</p>
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