Norwegian billionaire Christen Ager-Hanssen has been sentenced to 10 months in prison in the UK for contempt of court, reports Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv.
Ager-Hanssen tells Dagbladet that he is a whistleblower, and that the legal process has violated his human rights.
The sentence concerns the cryptocurrency company Nchain, where Ager-Hanssen was previously CEO.
A researcher at the company, according to Dagbladet, claimed to have founded the cryptocurrency bitcoin in 2008. Ager-Hanssen has in a report directed several accusations against the company, and claimed that the claim about bitcoin is a lie.
A short time later, Ager-Hanssen was fired from the CEO position, and was ordered in a court ruling to no longer speak about the company and to hand over documents from his time as CEO.
The court in the UK now believes that he has not followed these injunctions, writes Norwegian media.
Risk capitalist Ager-Hanssen became a well-known name in Sweden when he bought the free newspaper Metro in 2017, which was shut down two years later.
