The man who worked in Pohjola-Norden does not have to pay his former supervisor crime
Trials|The Helsinki District Court overturned the unilateral sentence in 2022.
Helsinki The District Court has exempted a man who worked for the Nordic Norden Association for more than EUR 200,000 in liability. In July 2022, the man was ordered to pay nearly EUR 249,000 to the Pohjola-Norden Support Foundation in accordance with the requirement of the National Board of Patents and Registration (NBR).
The action of the NBPR was based on the fact that the man had been a member of the Board of the Foundation at a time when his supervisor, the secretary of the association and the agency of the foundation Michael Oksanen More than EUR 321,000 for a total of money for them. Oksanen was sentenced last year in a recognition trial, for example, for aggravated embezzlement to conditional imprisonment.
« A member of the board of directors of a carefully functioning foundation should have discovered the deviation between the aid decisions made and the costs recorded in the income statement if the decisions had been made properly, » the NBPR explained its claim.
Man denied having been on the board of the Foundation. According to him, Oksanen mistaken him to sign a document on the matter.
« The defendant understood the job in the question and did the job.
In his judgment on Friday, the District Court held that the man was not appeared to be on the board of the Foundation and overturned the one -sided sentence in 2022. According to the court, Oksanen has admitted that he has falsified numerous documents.
« (The defendant) has not worked carefully in the form of his own position and work, without signing the documents referred to, without familiarity with the content they received.
NBPR had also claimed damages from the former Board of Directors of the Foundation Anne-Mari from Estonian and From Simo Rundgren. Virolainen served as a Member of the Coalition Party from 2007 to 2023, while Rundgren was another MP from 2003-2007 and 2011-2015.
In January 2024, however, the NBPR withdrew its action against Estonia and Rundgren as they reached the reconciliation. Estonia and Rundgren paid EUR 33,750 to the foundation on the basis of the reconciliation agreement. With the decision of the Helsinki District Court in April 2024, the matter former MPs remained in its case.
