FINLAND COMMERCIALCRIME FEATURE FINANCIALCRIME MONEY LAUNDERING RUSSIA BORDER CRIME
January 1st, 2006
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Helsinki
BY its own lights Finland is a model of Nordic virtue and is snooty about crime in neighbouring countries round the Baltic. But Interpol begs to differ, ranking Finnish criminality as high for an industrialised economy. David Haworth, mugged for his mobile in Helsinki, describes this paradox.
THE NEWLY installed president of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvou, recently caused eyebrow-raising headlines when he was fined Euro 31,000 for importing a range of luxury goods from Switzerland without paying tax or customs duty. He had collected ...
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