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FINLAND - THE SHIELD MEN

By Aino Rautiainen · 4 parts · 12 h 48 min · English

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Finland ranks among the world's least corrupt countries. In 2000 the head of Helsinki's drug police explained on national television how crime bosses hide behind front men he called shield men; twelve years later investigators watched him meet a leader of one of the country's largest gangs, and the courts convicted him of organizing hashish smuggling. This book reads the files behind the clean reputation: therapy patients extorted one by one, an internet Ponzi club, a youth-housing foundation emptied by its managers, Thai berry pickers bound by debt, 135 million euros that crossed a shell company with no crime ever proven. Covers Jari Aarnio and the Helsinki drug police, Keijo Vilhunen and United Brotherhood, Aleksanteri Kivimäki and Vastaamo, Hannu Kailajärvi and WinCapita, and Aki Haaro and the Youth Foundation.

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  1. Part 01

    3:01:18

  2. Part 02

    3:12:35

  3. Part 03

    3:09:35

  4. Part 04

    3:24:30

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