30.7.2024 | Since the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, the Itä-Uusimaa Police Department has been investigating an international organised crime group led from Poland. The group is suspected of having imported to Finland considerable volumes of narcotics and their precursors.

24.9.2024 | The national human trafficking investigative team of the Helsinki Police Department is transferring a suspected criminal case for the consideration of charges as aggravated usury. The police suspects that kickbacks were collected from up to 200 Ethiopian healthcare employees. The prime suspect has remained in custody since July.

3.2.2025 | Valio has filed a police report with the Helsinki Police Department regarding the data breach that occurred on December 12, 2024, which compromised the personal data of 70,000 people.

25.11.2024 | Investigations at the scene where the C-Lion-1 sea cable between Finland and Germany was ruptured are ongoing. The Border Guard's patrol vessel Turva is still at the scene to continue underwater investigations in the Baltic Sea.

3.4.2024 | The Eastern Uusimaa police has made progress in the investigation of the school shooting in Viertola.

31.8.2023 | The Vastaamo hacking case, involving suspected aggravated computer break-in, aggravated attempted extortion and aggravated dissemination of information violating personal privacy, has been under investigation by the police since autumn 2020. The criminal investigation is now completed and referred to the prosecutor for consideration of charges.

20.10.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation also examines if the object found in the seabed has any connection to the damage in the gas pipeline.

24.10.2023 | The sequence of events has been established on the basis of evidence and data, and the vessel Newnew Polar Bear, flying the flag of Hong Kong, is believed to have caused the damage.

9.5.2025 | The National Bureau of Investigation continues cooperation with Chinese authorities in the investigation into the damaged Balticconnector gas pipeline. Information about any investigative measures taken by the authorities of China and Hong Kong is, however, provided by the competent authorities themselves.

13.10.2023 | The Police and the Border Guard have set up a joint investigation team to carry out a preliminary investigation into the damage to a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable.

19.10.2023 | The scene investigation into the damaged gas pipeline has been completed and the collected samples have been submitted to forensic examination.

2.4.2024 | The investigation of the shooting at the Viertola school in Vantaa is progressing. The incident took place In Jokiranta today 2.4.2024 at nine o'clock in the morning.

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15.3.2024 | National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducts investigation into an alleged aggravated money laundering as a Finnish company has received money from Ukraine for supplying protection gear to the war zone. According to the criminal investigation, a total of 5.7 million euros was sent to a Finnish entrepreneur from the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

8.5.2025 | A person with links to the hacking committed against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo is suspected of aiding and abetting aggravated extortion and aggravated dissemination of information violating personal privacy.

11.4.2024 | The police have made progress in the criminal investigation into the shooting incident at Viertola school on 02 April and most of the interviews have been completed. The police have been working in close cooperation with various authorities, including the District Prosecutor.

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16.10.2023 | Investigations into the damage to a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable have progressed over the weekend. The technical investigation at the scene has been allowed to continue.

12.10.2023 | National Bureau of Investigation is setting up a joint investigation team with Estonia for the cooperation in criminal investigation into the gas pipeline incident.

26.3.2024 | On 18 March 2021, the National Bureau of Investigation published a press release on a criminal investigation into the hacking of Parliament's information systems in 2020–2021. The suspected offences under investigation have been aggravated espionage, aggravated unlawful access to an information system, and aggravated violation of the secrecy of communications.

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9.12.2025 | Police received a report of a violent incident at 4:48 a.m. on Tuesday, December 9, on Kolsarintie in Konala. Several police units responded to the scene.

11.10.2023 | National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) launched criminal investigation on Tuesday, October 10 into a possibly intentional damaging of gas pipeline as aggravated criminal mischief.

21.11.2025 | The Helsinki Police Department has received several reports regarding an Instagram post that has been described as anti-Semitic.

27.4.2026 | Police call-out volumes continue to rise — police concerned about the increasing violence of youth crime

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15.12.2023 | National Bureau of Investigation investigates alleged war crimes committed in Ukraine.

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23.1.2026 | On Monday, January 19, 2026, based on information received from another authority, the police conducted a search at a detached house located in northern Helsinki.

8.4.2024 | The investigation into the Viertola shooting incident continued over the weekend with technical examinations and a number of interviews. The police also interviewed the suspect again. The police are more or less aware of the course of the events.

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14.6.2024 | The National Bureau of Investigation will request that a man born in 1990 suspected of two attempted murders be placed on remand. The request will be considered by the Oulu District Court on Monday 17 June.

31.12.2025 | The police, together with other authorities, have moved the cargo vessel to a safe place for further inquiries. They are also in the process of establishing information related to the vessel. 

24.6.2025 | A study by the Police University College describes the trend in economic crime and the state of economic crime investigation in Finland.

9.3.2026 | The Helsinki Police Department has submitted a pre-trial investigation to the prosecutor for consideration of charges. The investigation into Swedish organised crime and street gangs in Northern Helsinki revealed that Crime as a Service has become a reality in Finland.

11.5.2023 | A footbridge structure crossing Itätuulenkuja in Tapiola, Espoo collapsed in the morning of 11 May. The police are investigating the incident under the offence types of endangering and injury caused through negligence. The offence types may become more specific as the investigation progresses.

25.9.2025 | Police request certain witnesses to come forward regarding a suspected robbery in Vaasa

27.11.2024 | The crime scene investigation of the C-Lion-1 sea cable rupture site has been completed. Investigators have collected samples of the cable for further analysis by the Forensic Laboratory of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and conducted seabed imaging.

4.6.2025 | A long-planned large-scale operation targeting the top leaders and middle management of an Albanian-led criminal network was carried out in Albania on the third of June 2025. Thus far, a total of 55 persons have been convicted in different court instances and almost 300 kilos of drugs seized in the case concerned in Finland.

11.10.2024 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has completed criminal investigation into suspected war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014. One person is suspected of several war crimes, including an aggravated war crime.