The Supreme Court tightened the judgment of the ex-intelligence manager: an absolute imprisonment

Supreme The court (KKO) condemned the EU and the former intelligence manager of the Defense Forces on Tuesday Georgij Alafuzoffin to absolute imprisonment.

Previously, the Helsinki Court of Appeal had been sentenced by the Control Admiral evp. From Alafuzoff’s aggravated service offense to 1.5 years in prison. The KKO raised 71-year-old Alafuzoff’s imprisonment to the year and 10 months and considered that it should be prescribed as absolute.

According to the KKO, Alafuzoff had unlawfully handled and retained the confidential and security -class military intelligence data at home. Nor had he returned documents to the Defense Forces when the right of handling of the documents based on his position had expired.

« The target of the act had been very extensive material that contained national and international confidential and security -class documents over the long period.

KKO According to a fair sentence for a gross service offense, the perpetrator of Alafuzoff would have been two years and two months in prison. Due to the delay in the trial, it decided to reduce the sentence by four months.

« On the other hand, the publicity of the matter did not justify the reduction of the punishment. The length of the sentence and the reproach of the defendant’s conduct required the imprisonment to be condemned as an absolute imprisonment, » the release stated.

The prosecutor and the Defense Forces had requested a minimum imprisonment for Alafuzoff in the KKO, or in any case an absolute imprisonment. In addition, both had demanded that Alafuzoff be ordered to lose his military values ​​if he was sentenced to at least two years in prison.

Alafuzoff primarily calls for the KKO to overturn the court sentence and reject the charges. In the alternative, he insists that the KKO keeps the court sentence unchanged.

The offense of a serious service offense is from 2005 to 2016, when Alafuzoff first served as Assistant Department Manager in the General Staff, then as the Defense Forces Intelligence Manager and finally as the EU Military Staff Intelligence Manager. He retired in 2016.

Alafuzoff has admitted that it has committed a basic service offense. He has said that he has taken some materials to his home to perform his job as well as possible.

He has not been alleged to have the purpose of recovery or harm.

Alafuzoff In spring 2018, two computers, two external hard drives, several CDs and memory sticks, and paper documents were seized from home. Police conducted a home investigation in a criminal investigation into the Helsingin Sanomat Message Center.

Originally, Alafuzoff was investigated because HS was suspected of receiving secret information in 2014 when the magazine’s reporter interviewed Alafuzoff after he started in the EU mission.

According to an investigation into the Central Criminal Police, the reporter received a note from Alafuzoff to record his notes. The stick apparently looked empty, but it may have been able to return previously deleted files.

In January 2023, the Helsinki District Court sentenced two HS journalists to disclose a security secret for a story published in December 2017. The judgment was appealed to the Court of Appeal, where the proceedings were in progress.

However, Alafuzoff’s prosecution does not apply to the notebook received by the supplier. Deputy Prosecutor General Jukka Rappe closed down the pre -trial investigation at the end of 2022 because he considered that there was no evidence of intentional security of security. The prosecution of negligence, or negligence, was already expired in 2019.

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