11.3.2020 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) requests that a citizen of Sierra Leone, born in 1969, be placed on remand on suspicion of murders and aggravated war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in exceptional circumstances. The remand hearing is held at the Pirkanmaa District Court on Thursday 12 March at 11 o’clock.

8.6.2021 | The Finnish Police participated in a major global law enforcement operation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Europol, among others, has published a press release on the operation today on 8 June. For Finland, Operation Greenlight contributed to the fight against organised drug trafficking, in particular, and resulted in large drug seizures.

11.11.2022 | Environmental offences down from last year

27.1.2022 | The Barnahus project jointly run by the Police and Finnish institute for health and welfare (THL) has published a handbook which is a collective guide for the investigation of violent and sexual crimes against children. The handbook collects information for the Police regarding various pretrial investigation measures.

27.10.2021 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has investigated the computer break-in against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo since autumn 2020. Progress has been made in the criminal investigation, and the next step is to interview victims of the hacking incident online.

31.1.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has concluded a large-scale criminal investigation into aggravated impairment of the environment. The criminal investigation, involving three cases with an international dimension, started at the beginning of 2020. A press release on the progress made in the investigation was delivered in May 2021.

19.1.2021 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Southwestern Finland Police Department have finished a criminal investigation into large-scale trafficking of cocaine from the Netherlands to Finland and its further distribution in the Turku and Helsinki regions.

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.

18.3.2021 | Investigations into the hacking of the Finnish Parliament's information systems are ongoing. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) started the criminal investigation in late autumn 2020. The suspected offences comprise an aggravated computer break-in, aggravated espionage, and aggravated message interception.

13.1.2021 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has concluded criminal investigation into several aggravated criminal offences committed in Liberia between 2000 and 2003. The suspect is a Sierra Leone national born in 1969.

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.

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.

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.

2.9.2024 | A joint campaign by the National Police Board, the National Bureau of Investigation, Save the Children Finland and the Protect Children association aims at increasing awareness of crimes taking place in the online environment, how to recognise them, how to report them and how to prevent them. The campaign will take place on social media channels in the week starting on 2 September. The target gr...

15.7.2022 | The analysing period of personal data will become significantly longer based on a new Europol decree that came into force in the end of June. The new decree will prolong Europol’s analysing period of personal data significantly compared to the previous decree. 

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.

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.

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

4.4.2024 | Investigation into the shooting incident at Viertola school in Vantaa on Tuesday 02 April 2024 continues, including interviews with the individuals involved and technical investigation.