The financial magazine Kapital lists him as Norway's 172nd richest person.
[2] 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.
[3] In June 2019, Norwegian police said that they could not rule out that the alleged abduction had simply been a cover for her death.
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.