Not so understood: Finnish police denied the statement that Ukraine sells Western weapons

On October 30, in an interview with TRC, the head of the department of combating organized crime, Christier Algren, said that the assault rifles delivered from Ukraine, in addition to Finland, were also found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. In an interview, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine responded promptly, which called the publication fake. "The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine immediately officially began to find out the truth of the data set out in this material.

The latter denied the existence of the facts of the removal of such weapons of Ukrainian origin in the Finnish territory," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. "A designed journalist and does not correspond to the words of a police representative who was interviewed. " Also, lack of information about the existence of such a channel of illegal movement of weapons from Ukraine was confirmed by representatives of law enforcement agencies of other countries.

" After that, Yle journalists spoke with the deputy head of the CCP Marcus Valimyaki. He stated that the police did not have evidence that the weapon received by Ukraine as military assistance from Western allies was then taken to Finland. However, in an interview with Yle, Algren spoke not about Western assistance, but about smuggling of weapons through Ukraine to northern Europe. Vyalimyki noted that the police have intelligence information about it, and the investigation is now underway.

He did not refute the words of his colleague and emphasized that such smuggling is not a mass phenomenon, so there is no cause for concern. The deputy head of the police stated that his department did not want to give the impression that the Ukrainian authorities could somehow allow Western weapons to get into the hands of criminals. "Organized crime is extremely clever in situations where they can get weapons.

Therefore, the fact is that criminals are capable of it, not that the Ukrainian authorities allow it to do it in some way," Valimyki said. According to him, police fears are primarily related to the fact that weapons often get into the hands of the conflict zones, so security forces closely monitor it.

We will remind, in the summer in Prague a meeting of the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the EU countries, as well as Ukraine and Moldova took place, which discussed the threat of smuggling of weapons from Ukraine to Europe. In Europe, we have been smuggling weapons from Ukraine to Europe and is a potential threat to the security of the European Union.