Serious violent crimes have been detected by a joint operation carried out between the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Swedish Police. In the case under investigation, Swedish citizens are suspected of having organised the commission of violent acts in Sweden and Denmark. One suspect is suspected of about ten violent acts.
The criminal investigation was opened at the end of July 2024 when the NBI took notice of a Swedish citizen who had arrived in Finland from Estonia. This man, born in 2000, had travelled to Estonia from Colombia.
In Helsinki, Finland, he met three men who had arrived in the country from Sweden that same morning.
Action taken on these four men soon resulted in the NBI starting a criminal investigation into a suspected aggravated narcotics offence.
The material gathered during the investigation of the aggravated narcotics offence revealed that there was also reason to suspect the persons who had come to meet each other in Finland of violent crimes.
– It is suspected that the four men have recruited persons to commit violent crimes in Sweden and Denmark. The main suspect, namely the man who arrived in Finland from Colombia via Estonia, is suspected of about ten violent acts. It is suspected that he recruited persons to commit these acts. The suspected crimes include murders and explosions and, on the basis of the criminal investigation, some of them were committed on orders given from Finland, says Head of Investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Marko Heinonen.
The main suspect and one of the other suspects, a Swedish citizen born in 2003, were apprehended in Finland in mid August 2024 to prevent violent acts and to investigate the suspicions. The other two suspects managed to leave the country before the apprehensions. The main suspect and the man born in 2003 have been surrendered to Sweden for the purpose of a criminal investigation by the Swedish Police. The police have established that all the suspects have links to Swedish criminal networks.
During the criminal investigation, the NBI has collaborated closely with the Swedish Police and with Europol. In Sweden, charges were brought today in four cases where the violent acts were suspected to have been organised from Finland. The violent acts are part of a larger criminal investigation into aggravated narcotics offences during which 1300 kilos of cocaine were seized from the Port of Nynäshamn by the Swedish Police and Swedish Customs. Read the press release of the Swedish Police hereLink to an external website.
The Finnish criminal investigation into the aggravated narcotics offence continues. The actions of the four men are also under investigation in Finland in relation to violent crimes.
