17.5.2024 | Spanish law enforcement authorities carried out an operation in which two persons targeted by the Finnish Police were also arrested. Spain authorities released information about the operation earlier this week. This joint search and arrest operation between Spain, Finland, Sweden and Poland was coordinated by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and carried out in the regions of Barcelona and Malaga on Tuesday 23 April.

28.1.2022 | The police have nearly completed criminal investigations into a massive drug smuggling case that is most exceptional in Finnish drug history. The criminal activity began to be exposed during the international FBI-led Operation Greenlight. The police believe that the case has links to a number of other drug investigations in Finland.

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.

10.11.2023 | Investigation into the Balticconnector gas pipeline damage has been underway for a month. Technical examinations have reinforced suspicion that the anchor lifted from the sea belongs to the vessel Newnew Polar Bear.

17.10.2023 | The police stated yesterday that the details of the vessels which sailed in the area during the gas pipeline incident have been established. Investigation has been targeted on several vessels relating to the place and time of the incident.

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.

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.

20.5.2019 | Extending the authority of the police to issue a driving ban, and renewal of the fine procedure

16.2.2021 | The district court of Eastern Uusimaa declared the unregistered associations called United Brotherhood (UB) and Bad Union (BU) dissolved on 15 February 2021.

3.2.2023 | A 25-year-old man suspected of the aggravated computer break-in has been arrested in France under a European arrest warrant. The police issued the arrest warrant for the suspect in October 2022.

27.2.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation will request that the Finnish man suspected of the computer break-in committed against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo be placed on remand by the Western Uusimaa District Court in Espoo on Tuesday 28 February. The suspect was surrendered to Finland on Friday 24 February from France, where he was arrested at the beginning of the month.

18.3.2022 | A construction company is suspected of having exploited their workers who have been unaware of the applicable working hour laws and collective contract terms. The company has made the employees work very long hours , with no weekly rest days or increments of pay. Moreover, the workers have been forced to refund part of their pay to the employer.

28.10.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation has made progress in the criminal investigation of the hacking incident committed against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo. A Finnish man has been remanded in absentia on suspicion of the offence. A European arrest warrant has been issued against the suspect.

3.10.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Border Guard and the Helsinki Police Department investigate suspected human trafficking in connection with a Finnish berry company. Two persons have been remanded on suspicion of trafficking in human beings.

30.9.2022 | The criminal investigation has revealed that the victims lost their money after being scammed into making investments on online crypto investment platforms.

6.4.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation investigates airspace violations by Russian civil aircraft. The violations are investigated as regulation offences.

5.6.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation and the Southwestern Finland Police Department have finished a criminal investigation into online banking frauds. The suspect, who is a man in his twenties, has been remanded since December 2022. The complex investigation has links to a wider criminal phenomenon in which Finnish people have lost millions of euros in recent years.

23.6.2021 | Victims of Vastaamo hacking have made a record number of crime reports. The police estimate that the number of victims is even higher. The police will start interviewing victims in the autumn.

6.7.2023 | Investigation of the criminal offences related to the Vastaamo case has required an exceptional amount of work from the police, and this is clearly visible in the statistics for the police’s criminal investigations for this year. By the end of June, approximately 25,000 crimes related to the case have been solved.

16.9.2021 | In spring and summer 2021, the police detected an online fraud scheme in which criminals are phishing for online banking codes for malicious purposes. The police have set up a national investigation team to tackle this crime.