Since we published our story on how Ager-Hanssen tried and failed to launch a coup at nChain, we thought we’d write a little update on what we have learned since and the current state of play. Most importantly, the news of Ager-Hanssen’s sentencing. On Friday 3rd May 2024, Ager-Hanssen received a ten-month prison sentence.
Ager-Hanssen claimed to the travel and beauty blogger Lucy Walker that he knew nothing about the hearing and will be appealing, however, this is a lie on his part as the judge states he “has no doubt” Ager-Hanssen had correctly been served documents, including from his own clerk who had sent him details of how to participate in the hearing remotely. The judge, in relation to the particular hearing Ager-Hanssen told ‘WhatTheFinance’ he had no idea about, states:
It is also quite damning for somebody who markets themselves as a ‘litigation expert’. Why would a supposedly wealthy man represent themselves in a serious litigation, if not to try and deceive the judge?
Contrary to what Ager-Hanssen is claiming, he was not jailed for whistleblowing, the previous judges obviously read his ‘fairway brief’ report and gave it no weight at all in the current proceedings, which must have been devastating for Ager-Hanssen, who has been trying to perfect his ‘whistleblowing’ schtick for ten years now…but more importantly, as the judgement states, he has been sentenced for contempt of court for failing to comply with court orders.
As Justice Mellor pointed out in his judgement against Craig Wright which dropped earlier this week, nothing Ager-Hanssen said or did was relied upon at all in his assessment of the case. IE – Ager-Hanssen didn’t ‘expose’ anything…COPA had a watertight case and did not need any of his so-called ‘evidence’ we understand Bird and Bird reported both Ager-Hanssen and Zafar Ali KC to the court to prevent their activities prejudicing their trial. It should also be noted, the fake whistleblowing report, the fairway brief, doesn’t pertain to Craig Wright, who is only mentioned briefly.
Mr Justice Jacobs, summarises the background which led to the ten-month sentence, which we further summarise here as follows. Essentially, after Ager-Hanssen was fired from nChain, the company sought an injunction to prevent him from disclosing company material, which was granted a few weeks after the events of his dismissal.
Following the injunction, Ager-Hanssen and his lawyers at Mishcon de Reya parted ways and he did not appoint any further lawyers to represent him – curious for somebody who claims to be one of Norway’s richest men…. Regardless, Ager-Hanssen was ordered to remove the Fairway Brief from the kompromat website he had set up and provide nChain’s lawyers with details of what material he had and whom he had shared it with.
Ager-Hanssen tried to convince the judge he was too sick to engage with the process, all the while he was larping on Twitter to anyone who would listen. The judge didn’t buy it and ordered him to comply with the order. He chose not to.
On the 19th January 2024, Ager-Hassen was ordered by Mr Justice Henshaw to surrender two laptops, a mobile phone and access to his @custosgroup.com email address to an independent forensic examiner, who would image them and return them to him. The examiner would then determine what nChain data Ager-Hanssen had stolen and presumably he’d have been ordered to delete it and the whole thing would have been over. The deadline to do so was 4pm on the 26th January 2024. Instead of complying, Ager-Hanssen packed a bag and fled to Norway.
Justice Jacobs says in his written judgement:
Justice Jacobs also states: “I take into account that the breaches by the Claimant are deliberate. Mr Montagu-Smith has shown me evidence that the Defendant is continuing to publish information on the X platform, and it is fair to conclude that he considers that he is not constrained in any way by orders which have previously been made.
But I must bear in mind that I am not sentencing him for any breaches other than those which have been proven to the criminal standard in the present proceedings. The significant point to my mind is not to decide that there have been further breaches, but to recognise that the failure by the Defendant to comply with the court’s order puts him in a position where he is able, if he is so minded, to make further use of confidential information. Had he complied with the court’s order, that would be impossible or at least more difficult. All these matters are relevant because they show a deliberate and continuing breach by the Defendant and they emphasise the significance to the Claimant of the breaches which have occurred.”
In sentencing, Justice Jacon states he considers “the appropriate sentence in this case for the two breaches of the order of Mr Justice Henshaw is a sentence of 10 months’ imprisonment which will run concurrently with each other.”
You can read the full judgement here.
As you can see from the judgement, we believe it has incorrectly been reported that this particular action relates in any way to Ager-Hanssen’s alleged ‘whistleblowing’. As usual with Ager-Hanssen, he mixes truth and lies to muddy the water – so here we try and clarify things.
It’s important to understand that Ager-Hanssen has an MO. He enters companies, creates chaos to trash any value, then offers the company a choice – give him control or getting into an unwinnable legal battle with him.
This is summed up by Realtid founding editor Jonas Wiwen-Nilsson, whom Ager-Hanssen was trying to bully out of his company, who said: “In the meeting, Christen Ager-Hanssen made clear threats and tried to influence editorial, operational and ownership issues. Among other things, Christen Ager-Hanssen threatened a ‘war we wouldn’t be able to deal with’ and to ‘crush us’ if we didn’t meet him.”
“Unfortunately, this was not the case and in addition to AB Custos taking certain (newly recruited) staff from us through Metro, AB Custos is now using legal means to act in a way that can only be interpreted as actively trying to destroy our business because we do not accept to dance to their pipe.”
This is precisely what he was trying to do at nChain. Everything else is just noise and distraction. Let’s not forget, even after both he and Wright were fired, he went on a BSV Twitter Space claiming he still thought Craig could be Satoshi:
(It should be noted, in the above article from 2017 that Ager-Hanssen was at that time also claiming to be a whistleblower on Wiwen-Nilsson.)
Ager-Hanssen also makes several references to his supposed love of ‘good corporate governance’ which is ironic, given his own appointments board at FlyMe went to prison for fraud, with Ager-Hanssen only getting off because he ratted to keep himself out of prison. Björn Olegård for example, who is the Custos Group director of investment operations, went to prison for accounting fraud.
We have also written extensively about Ager-Hanssen’s illegal spam marketing apps, which have no privacy policy and none of his companies are registered with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), meaning it is illegal for them to control any personal data.
Ager-Hanssen is stuck between a rock and a hard place, he’s removed ‘conservative’ from his Twitter bio after the Guardian exposed his data-stealing scam with the Tory party. As both the Swedish and Norwegian tax authorities close in, our dimutive ‘Viking Raider’ might need to take his little canoe and sail off to lands anew, only this time, wherever he lands will be able to see exactly what he is.
Of course, all of this will come out in the wash and we expect Ager-Hanssen’s ridiculous ‘whistleblower’ scam to be exposed in the High Court like the rest of his failed ventures.
What was Ager-Hanssen so terrified would be found on his devices when imaged? Specifically, what would it have revealed about who he was talking to in the run up to his fake whistleblowing report and Wright’s trial, that he’d rather go to prison for 10 months for. I suspect the answer would reveal everything…
Let’s not forget, he is currently being sued by the ex-wife of Putin’s former son-in-law…