Ex testa del servizio di sicurezza e intelligence finlandese sospettata di tradimento
https://yle.fi/a/74-20163694
di Dry_Row_7050
Ex testa del servizio di sicurezza e intelligence finlandese sospettata di tradimento
https://yle.fi/a/74-20163694
di Dry_Row_7050
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This is bad
This is nothing out of the ordinary here in Finland. 10 years ago the chief of our drug police was convicted for smuggling in tons of drugs from the Netherlands.
What is interesting is that [he lobbied our government to ban encryption](https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000007885954.html), and [our government is still going forward with his plan of weakening our constitutional protections](https://oikeusministerio.fi/-/parlamentaarinen-ohjausryhma-tukemaan-perustuslain-muutosten-valmistelua-) for privacy, so yeah. A man who leaked confidential information wanted to have access to the private messages of everybody.
And the [Executive Vice-president of the European commission, Henna Virkkunen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henna_Virkkunen), who is associated with the same party as the man suspected of treason, is pushing the ProtectEU spying agenda on an EU-wide level.
Imagine the ones who didn’t got caught
“Supo (Finnish Security and Intelligence Service) has pointed out that no one is suspected of acting in favor of a foreign state, but the investigation will determine whether the actions were legal.”
[https://yle.fi/a/74-20163780?origin=rss](https://yle.fi/a/74-20163780?origin=rss)
>In a post on X, Pelttari said that the suspicion centred on his not intervening in a case involving retired Supo officials who still had access to confidential information about the agency’s activities. He denied being guilty of any crime.
No word on if they were classified docs on a bathroom floor in Florida
The caption under the article photo has me confused:
“Antti Pelttari at a press conference in late 2034, when he was director of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo). Image: Silja Viitala / yle “
He’s being charged of allowing people who had retired from the security service to still have access to confidential information. Bad, yes. But not “let’s betray the country to a hostile foreign power”-bad.
Very light on details. How did he share this information and what did he share?
For example, in Denmark our former defense minister was previously charged with treason, because he confirmed that we did in fact spy for the Americans. This was technically a state secret, even though it was public knowledge, so he got a treason charge. Similarly, our former head of the military intelligence, Lars Findsen, has faced a similar charge accusing him of leaking to the media.
I think its fair to say that such charges are much less serious than, for example, leaking information to Russia.