‘Whistleblower for hire’ Christen Ager-Hanssen has been reported to the police in Sweden this week over an alleged attempt to blackmail Norion Bank CEO Martin Nossman and Chairman of the Board Erik Sellin, according to Swedish media.
Expressen claims Ager-Hanssen and Swedish businessman Oscar Engelbert have been reported to the police for blackmail, defamation and abuse of the courts. According to Expressen’s police sources, the complaint involves “some form of recording”.
Norion had secured a 52.5 million kr judgment against Englebert last year, and had seized his home and various designer furniture items to offset the balance, effectively bankrupting him – a process Ager-Hanssen has a lot of personal experience in.
According to the police report, Ager-Hanssen “committed a crime by using various means” to blackmail Norion into dropping the lawsuit against Englebert.
Norion Bank’s lawyer is quoted as saying: I can confirm that a report has been filed and that I represent the bank. The police will investigate the details. I do not want to prejudge that investigation.”
The newspaper state Public Prosecutor Marie Skeppstedt Törnström has been appointed as the head of the preliminary investigation.
Ager-Hanssen has a long history of using of covert recordings in his blackmail campaigns, so it comes as no surprise he is up to his old tricks, however this time his opponents in the bank came well prepared.
Over the weekend, Ager-Hanssen tweeted that he was ‘whistleblowing’ on Norion Bank, claiming the relationship between Nossman and Selin “raises serious questions about corporate governance” and that he would be “submitting a report to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority”.
The case follows the Ager-Hanssen playbook to the letter; entering somebody else’s dispute, covertly recording and blackmailing, followed by his bullshit ‘whistleblowing’ on “bad corporate governance” – which is ironic given every company he has ever been involved with has been run into the ground, after constantly battling being struck off for not filing accounts.
Our website have previously reported on his blackmail campaigns, including of lawyer Tom Knudsen, whom reported Ager-Hanssen to the police after he threatened to release recordings if he did not do as demanded. Court also heard Ager-Hanssen approached financial director Jan Erik Tønnessen outside his home at midnight, threatening him if he did not cooperate.
In 2014, Ager-Hanssen admitted to bugging meetings with HQ Bank chairman Christer Sandberg. In 2016, he covertly recorded the filmmaker Fredrik von Krusenstjerna who was reportedly making a documentary about HQ Bank. The recording was secretly uploaded to YouTube and the documentary was scrapped.
He became widely known in the crypto space for his kompromat website cryptoleaks, in which released material he covertly recorded of the lawyer Kyle Roche at his office in London. Roche claims to have been drugged during dinner.
Ager-Hanssen is currently on the run from a 10-month prison sentence in the UK, where he was found liable of stealing data from crypto company nChain. He was also put into personal bankruptcy over unpaid court fees. He is also being sued by the ex-wife of sanctioned Russian oligarch Kirill Shamalov, who claims he stole £1.5 million from her and derailed her divorce proceedings.
It won’t be missed by our avid readers that this is the fifth time he has claimed to be a whistleblower, who has an uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the right time…for the right price. Local sources say Ager-Hanssen recently left Norway ‘for legal reasons’ and is unable to return. He currently owes millions in unpaid costs in the UK . Surely the Swedish authorities aren’t going to let him waste their time and resources when he already owes the state millions of kroners in unpaid taxes…
UPDATE 25/03/2025
It has been reported in Expressen this morning that Oscar Engelbert’s lawsuit, which was masterminded by Ager-Hanssen, has been thrown out by the Swedish courts after they failed to pay the filing fee.
This is the latest in a long running saga of Ager-Hanssen advised legal failures. Let’s not forget that his genius legal advice to Martin Wennberg, who fired his lawyers and represented himself after being told by Ager-Hanssen it would elicit sympathy from the judge, ended up with a prison sentence and declared bankrupt over unpaid legal fees.
He’s also not beneath sending his friends to prison too, with both Staffan Edh and Björn Olegård both being sentenced to six months imprisonment for fraud for rubber-stamping FlyMe’s extravagant spending propping up other Ager-Hanssen failures. Ager-Hanssen managed to worm his way out of the case, despite the prosecutor stating: “Christen Ager-Hanssen, as a representative of the main owner of FlyMe Europe AB, has, to the detriment of the company, abused his position of trust by approving the aforementioned payment and the agreement on which the payment was based at the general meeting on February 28, 2007, without there being any commercial basis for the transactions/agreements and without the company having received the corresponding assets or satisfactory security provided for the transactions.”
“The act has caused damage to the company. The act is to be regarded as serious in view of the size of the amount and as the business events have not been properly reported in the company’s accounting.”
Ager-Hanssen is also being sued for the return of £1.5 million he stole from the ex-wife of sanctioned Oligarch Kirill Shamalov, whom herself is being targeted by Putin, after being contracted to help her with her divorce. Ager-Hanssen fired her lawyers, kept the money and then threatened to sue her over unpaid fees, despite delivering no work…
Hie legal genius also did him no favours in his legal battle with crypto company nChain, who sued him for return of their data he has stolen during his now infamous failed coup. His strategy of pretending not to know about the hearings and representing himself (despite still claiming to be a billionaire) did not wash with the judge, who sentenced him to 10 months in prison and he was made bankrupt after being unable to pay the fees.
Expressen are also reporting that Norion bank have given Ager-Hanssen a taste of his own medicine, and secretly recorded HIM during his blackmail attempts and the recording is now with the Swedish police.
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