Russian students detained in Finland on charges of violating sanctions

Three students were suspected of exporting dual-use goods abroad; where exactly was not specified. They face up to four years in prison. In March, the first verdict was handed down in Finland in a case of violating sanctions against RUSSIA.

Three Russian citizens were detained in Finland on suspicion of exporting dual-use goods abroad, writes Yle.

The police filed a petition for arrest in COURT , the hearing will be held on the afternoon of May 3. All the detainees are students of a vocational school in Kainuu; they are two 25-year-old men and an 18-year-old girl.

it is not specified exactly what items the detainees could have taken and where they could have taken them. Yle writes that usually in such cases we are talking about electronics, sensors or lasers.

The suspects face from four months to four years in prison.

In March, a Finnish court handed down the country's first sentence to a businessman for violating sanctions rules and exporting defense goods. The executive DIRECTOR of Luminor and Siberica, Gabriel Temin, received a nine-month suspended sentence. According to investigators, the entrepreneur exported or tried to EXPORT sanctioned goods to Russia. In addition, Temin was suspected of supplying drones to Russia, but no evidence was found for this, Helsingin Sanomat reported.

Since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, the EU has introduced 13 packages of sanctions against Russia. Finland, as part of the restrictions, together with other European countries, banned the entry of cars with Russian license plates; the country also blocked several transactions for the purchase of real estate for Russians. Russian authorities consider Western sanctions illegal and ineffective.