Crime

An instructor at the Police University College Polamk in Tampere has been charged with sexual abuse and sexual harassment in court on Tuesday. Prosecutors say the senior sergeant groped a colleague and several trainees and was in breach of good…

Finnish-Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has lost a court case he brought against four Finnish banks. Helsinki District Court dismissed the case against the banks, which hinged on whether they were legally obliged to extend…

Helsinki Police have been analysing the statistics from a year of violent crime incidents in the capital to figure out what motivates extremist attacks. During 2019 police say there were 42 crimes committed in total, where violence or incitement to…

Helsinki District Court is hearing the preliminary case of a former employee at Finland’s security police SUPO, who is suspected of stealing secret documents. According to the National Bureau of Investigation, who carried out the initial investigation, the employee allegedly…

The United Brotherhood crime gang says it will cease its operations, and those of an affiliated gang called Bad Union. The organisation made the announcement in a press release to MTV Uutiset and Helsingin Sanomat, and the decision comes ahead of…

Finland’s Supreme Court has ruled that police can’t use electronic equipment seized from a journalist’s home as part of their preliminary investigation into how she got classified material about the country’s intelligence capabilities. In its ruling the court said the…

Police forces in Finland and Spain have cooperated on an operation to smash a large drugs smuggling and drugs sales operation. Officers in Helsinki, Tampere and Häme joined forces with their Spanish counterparts to arrest two Finnish nationals they say…

Police have arrested a number of foreign nationals as they tried to flee the country by ferry, after a masked gang raided a chemical storage facility in Espoo. Now the National Bureau of Investigation says they’re investigating a serious drug…

Police in Helsinki say they’ve made a number of arrests, and delayed the departure of a ferry from the city’s Olympic terminal, in an operation which is related to an earlier incident in Espoo. Early Monday afternoon Western Uusimaa Police…

Police in North Savo are investigating two overnight stabbing cases as attempted homicides – although officers don’t think the two incidents are linked. In Kuopio a 50-year old man has been detained after the first stabbing at a private residence….