BIRMINGHAM (Dagbladet): Anne-Elisabeth Hagen has Monday been disappeared in 104 days in one of the norgeshistories most sensational forsvinningssaker.
Now confirm the police that there has been new contact from the suspected kidnappers.
This time they have possible the kidnappers also communicated a message to both the police and the Garden-the family’s lawyer Svein Holden. The message is sent on a new communications platform, but it is not yet received evidence that Anne-Elisabeth Garden is alive.
request HEARTBEAT: Anne-Elisabeth Hagen has been disappeared in 104 days. The family and police are asking now that they suspected the kidnappers come with concrete evidence that she is alive before they go in the negotiations. Photo: Private View more New platform
24. January asked the family’s lawyer Svein Holden that the kidnappers would make contact again over a new platform, and with livsbevis, after the last contact 16. January of this year.
In the aftermath of the press conference of January there has been a new message. The message is directed to the family and is sent to both the lawyer and the police, ” says politiinspektør Tommy Brøske.
He says that the new platform is far better suited for communication.
– In an attempt to avoid interference from the outside, we can’t say anything about the platform that now is used, when the message came, or what it contained, he says.
Asks for proof
He says that the police after an overall assessment, and contact with a lawyer Holden, found it appropriate to come out with the news now.
the Police sees it as positive that there is received a new message and that the counterparty has taken contact on a more suitable platform. There is no evidence that those who claim to have Anne-Elisabeth Garden actually has her. Neither police or family have received livsbevis, ” he says.
the Kidnappers should have set forth a claim of almost 90 million in the form of kryptovalutaen Monero, but the police advise the family to not enter into negotiations until they have received proof that the Garden is in live.
DISAPPEARED: Anne-Elisabeth Garden, disappeared from the couple’s home 31. October of last year. Photo: Lars Eivind Bones / Dagbladet Show more
– It can be a phone call directly from Anne-Elisabeth the Garden itself, an e-mail with image, video and audio, letter per mail, or contact with a lawyer. The most important thing is that the proof can datofestes and prove that she is alive, ” he says.
Disturbing
He says that the family is still in a very difficult situation, and the police focus still is to get the Anne-Elisabeth Garden home safe
” We have hopes that she is alive and in good shape. At the same time, we look at it as disturbing that there has not been livsbevis in spite of the family’s message, he says.
request HEARTBEAT: Politiinspektør Tommy Brøske. Photo: Christian Roth Christensen / Dagbladet Show more the Secret investigation
Milliardærkona to Tom Hagen (68), disappeared from the couple’s home on Fjellhamar in Lørenskog 31. October of last year. When her husband came home that day, he found several patches with threats and demands for ransom paid in the form of kryptovaluta.
Police investigated the case in all secret until the 9. January in the year announced the disappearance. Police suspect that professional kidnappers with a financial motive is behind the disappearance.
Police still don’t know how Anne-Elisabeth Garden is or how it goes with her.
16. January received the family of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen (68) a new “message” from the suspected kidnappers in the case.
WATCH LIVE: Family, the Garden’s lawyer, Svein Holden , tells that the family has received a message from those who claim that they have Anne-Elisabeth Garden. Video: Nicolai Delebekk / Dagbladet Show more Contact 16. January
the Family’s lawyer Svein Holden to be at 19 in the evening give a statement on behalf of the family Garden at hotel Scandic Meyergården in Mo I Rana.
It is unclear whether it is one kontakthendelse after 16. January or more.
The first contact was before the police went public with the case 9. January of this year. 16. January, one week after the announcement, received the family a “message” from the suspected kidnappers.
Anne-Elisabeth Garden disappeared, 104 days ago, 31. October of last year.
MISSING: Police believe Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was abducted from her home in Lørenskog, 31. October of last year. Video: Lars Eivind Bones / Dagbladet Show more
the Reason that it was the lawyer, not the police, who went out with the message of the contact 16. January, was, according to politiinspektør Tommy Brøske because the police were not a party in the negotiations.
– It is completely natural, for the police is not a party in the negotiations. First and foremost, it is the family that must make their assessments. In addition, we try to be a good advisor based on our experience with similar cases, said Brøske to Dagbladet in the end of January.
Kryptotjeneste
The previous contact will be by both of the cases have been over kryptovalutatjenesten Monero, which is referred to as a channel unsuitable for communication”.
to communicate over the encrypted platform it must be a transaction between the recipient and the sender, and such transactions may contain a maximum of 64 characters, as for the outside world will be encrypted.
Have checked out the possible hideouts abroad
the Police have failed to indicate where the messages come from or who sent them, in spite of diligent investigation from the leading computer technical investigators in the Uk.
Possible hiding places
to the East police, investigating the case, has received a number of tips about possible hiding places where the 68-year-old can be.
the Police have checked out the possible hiding places in both Norway and abroad.
two weeks ago conducted Kripos a so-called 3D-scan of the property to the married couple.
the Week before carried out the police search in Go, which is bordered to the couple’s property. They made a number of findings, which are now examined to see if they can be put in the context of forsvinningssaken.
the Police: the Theory of abduction is strengthened
