Christen Ager-Hanssen has officially been declared bankrupt, we can reveal. At an open hearing held earlier today (19th August 2024), the judge dismissed Ager-Hanssen’s pleas for more time to pay and declared him officially bankrupt. Public filings confirm the bankruptcy order has been made:
We understand from the hearing that Ager-Hanssen had been trying his usual tactics of trying to delay proceedings by representing himself and playing dumb, just as he advises his clients to do, which also usually ends in a prison sentence for them too.
Ager-Hanssen had written to the judge, asking for the bankruptcy petition to be dismissed, before pivoting to ask for more time to pay. The judge had clearly had enough of Ager-Hanssen’s obvious stalling tactics and ruled from the bench that he was declaring him bankrupt as he obviously did not have the funds to meet the petition.
This begs the question, how did a so-called “billionaire” become bankrupt? The answer – is is not, and has never been, a billionaire. He is a confidence trickster who has run multi-level marketing scams for years whilst moonlighting as a divorce advisor. He manages to worm his way into companies by convincing vulnerable people he can solve all of their problems, before turning on them and trying to strip whatever wealth he can before he moves jurisdictions.
We exposed some of the peculiarities during his time at nChain, which seems to have focussed on producing ‘deals’ for his company Custos. He brought the whole gang onto the nChain payroll, incuding his son Casper, and his tennis coach.
We also exposed earlier this year that Ager-Hanssen had stolen £1million from Zhanna Shamalova, the ex-wife of sanctioned Russian oligarch Kirill Shamalov.
It is believed he is hiding out at his mothers home in Norway, after he was sentenced to prison for ten months for data theft. His rented London apartment has recently appeared back online for rent. We hope the new tenant does a sweep for his hidden recording devices!
The new bankruptcy order will mean Ager-Hanssen will lose all of his UK companies and can not be a director again without permission from the court.
With Ager-Hanssen also on the run in Norway as a fugitive, the responsibility will now fall to Casper to prowl the Mayfair clubs even more urgently now looking their next victim.
Casper Ager-Hanssen registered several new companies earlier this year, although he’s going to struggle to explain the recent developments to other Custos investors, including Harrods heir Omar Fayed and Mayed Al Qasimi, the son of exiled Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi.
Is this the end of the road for our Norwegian conman? We’re struggling to see how our fake billionaire comes back from this, he’s always avoided scrutiny for his actions by using kompromat against his enemies (who were former friends when he spilled their secrets to him), but with no money, no friends and no new mark to scam, it’s difficult to see how he will ever recover.
We sincerely hope that Georgina Halford-Hall and Kostas Alekoglu, who run the whistleblowing PR company WhistleBlowersUK and the WhatTheFinance blog respectively, had their invoices settled before today’s order was made – otherwise they’ll have to join the long queue of Ager-Hanssen creditors who will never see their money…