The transmission of Niko Ranta-aho’s prison messages became expensive for the legal assistant

Katiska drug the other main factor Niko Ranta-aho The legal assistant receives a penalty fee of EUR 9,000.

The reason for the payment is that the assistant passed the messages of Ranta-aho outside the prison to make the accused to change their stories to Ranta-aho.

The payment was made to the assistant this week by the Law Council. It described the activities of the assistant to be highly criticized.

The panel was partly disagreed from the solution. According to the minority, a woman who assisted Ranta -aho should have been allowed to cancel permission to act as a litigation lawyer and assistant.

Ranta-aho Due to the suspicions of criminal offenses in July 2019, the court imposed the restrictions on contact. He was only allowed to meet his close relatives in a controlled manner.

The restriction does not apply to the court assistant. The suspect always has the right to plan their defense with his assistant without supervision.

The woman became an assistant to Ranta-aho in late 2019.

The assistant gave his laptop at several prison meetings to use Ranta-aho. Ranta-aho wrote detailed instructions on the machine to change the stories. He also got to send emails.

When the doubts arise, the assistant was banned from using a laptop. After that, Ranta-aho began writing his instructions on paper tags.

The information provided by the assistant also included secret information on the content of the police investigation.

Forbidden communication was revealed by the police’s equipment search. Ranta-aho was later sentenced to 13 years in prison in two different branches of the Katiska drug case.

Woman acted in violation of the obligations imposed on court assistants, according to the Council of Justice.

According to the panel, it is unclear whether the assistant knew about the content of the messages he or she was transmitted. Nevertheless, the assistant acted in violation of communication restrictions and dishonest.

According to the assistant, he had been mistaken, pressured and threatened to convey messages. He has said that he had imagined that the messages were love letters to a former girlfriend.

According to the assistant, he was a permit lawyer for his first assignment. As a result of the events, he reportedly lost all his work and shareholding with a company established by a previous partner.

The panel took into account as a mitigation of the threats and pressure of Ranta-aho in its sanctional consideration.

According to the Council of Justice, the assistant should have given up the assistance of Ranta-aho in a possible threat or investment situation. Inexperienced also does not eliminate the reproach of the procedure, says the Board.

It is possible to appeal to the Helsinki Court of Appeal.