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Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling 2
#23965638 - 12/29/16 01:56 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38458583
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A Finnish court has sentenced the former head of Helsinki's anti-drugs police to 10 years in prison for drug-smuggling and other offences.
Jari Aarnio was found to have helped a gang to import nearly 800kg (1,764lb) of hashish from the Netherlands and sell it in Finland in 2011-2012.
Aarnio, 59, was found guilty of five drug crimes and 17 other offences.
These included trying to frame an innocent man for being in charge of the drug ring.
An accomplice of the former senior policeman, described as a top local criminal, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Aarnio spent 30 years in the anti-drugs force and was arrested in 2013.
He denied all the charges against him, claiming his actions were all legal and undertaken in a policing capacity.
His legal team said Aarnio plans to appeal the district court's sentence in the Helsinki Court of Appeal.
In a separate case in September, Aarnio was sentenced to three years in jail for fraud.
Crime rates are relatively low in Finland compared with most other European countries.
It ranks as the second least-corrupt country, after Denmark, in the global index compiled by Transparency International.
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Re: Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling [Re: vinsue]
#23965645 - 12/29/16 01:59 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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No controls, no black market, no inflated prices.
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musiclover420
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Re: Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling [Re: durian_2008]
#23965731 - 12/29/16 02:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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800 kilos of hash, holy shite.... I wonder if it was good stuff at all.
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Re: Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling [Re: vinsue]
#23966960 - 12/29/16 10:33 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sounds like a stand up guy.. It's nice to see his own bullshit come back to bite him in the ass. That needs to happen more often IMO..
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Re: Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling [Re: musiclover420]
#23967278 - 12/30/16 03:47 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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musiclover420 said: 800 kilos of hash, holy shite.... I wonder if it was good stuff at all.
It's not that much in Europe i guess.
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/2016/online/cannabis/consumer-market-cannabis-in-Europe " The estimated value of the retail market for cannabis in the EU is over EUR 9.3 billion in 2013, with a likely range of EUR 8.4–12.9 billion. This represents just under two-fifths of the total illicit market in drugs. Our estimates of amounts used suggest that in 2013 about 647 tonnes of herbal cannabis (range 581–903 tonnes) and 641 tonnes of resin (range 573–887 tonnes) were consumed."
In France it's common that cops recover big quantity of resin:
http://www.europe1.fr/faits-divers/saisie-record-de-7-tonnes-de-cannabis-lintrigant-profil-du-suspect-2682370
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Re: Finland jails police chief Aarnio for drug-smuggling [Re: musiclover420]
#23969918 - 12/31/16 04:52 AM (7 years, 30 days ago) |
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musiclover420 said: 800 kilos of hash, holy shite.... I wonder if it was good stuff at all.
Nope, the stuff around here is low quality, and lots of people noticed that during every wave of cops raiding home growers (yes, they did it in waves), there was suddenly a lot of crappy hash to be found everywhere.
That Aarnio dude is probably just the tip of the iceberg, finnish authorities not being corrupt behind the scenes seems like total bull to me. Of course they say we have really low corruption and everything but I would argue it's just covered up well enough and the police aren't falling for low level stuff as taking bribes from random people, at least not often. Regular people would probably not have the kind of money to sway any cops opinion, our differences in income haven't grown that big yet. And when they can just get a person busted for trying to bribe them, that's just another notch in their belt.
One of the more embarrassing (and funny) details of this is that the first person to call him out in the media was a hooker that worked as an informant. He blackmailed her for services for years and also traded her 500€ bills from other customers for smaller ones. He even denied using her services when they found his dried semen in her couch.
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