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Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 10:38:15 PM FTimes-STT Report, April 13
Vladimir Putin was named a crime suspect in a message sent from abroad to the National Bureau of Investigation and was subsequently recorded as such by mistake.
Without making any comment on the issue on Friday, State Prosecutor Juha-Mikko Hämäläinen just said that they would investigate the matter thoroughly.
The authorities will try to trace the origin of the message and how it was supplied to the Finnish police and how the name of the Russian president ended up on the NBI crime suspect list.
 National Police Commissioner Mikko Paatero parliament in Helsinki 12 April 2013. Photo Lehtikuva Hämäläinen refused to explain at this stage the method of inserting Putin’s name into the NBI crime suspect database as the issue was under investigation and the police were the prime suspects.
National Police Commissioner Mikko Paatero, who earlier termed the affair a gross mistake, also refrained from making any remark about it on Friday as the matter was being investigated at the moment.
Paatero and Permanent Secretary to the Interior Ministry Päivi Nerg on Friday briefed the Administration Committee of Parliament about the inclusion of Putin’s name in the NBI list.
Earlier, the NBI said inserting Putin’s name into the crime suspect list was a mistake, which it regretted and said the name had already been removed from the list.
Immediately after hearing the news of the blunder, Interior Minister Räsänen took measures for probing the matter and regretted the error. The fact that Putin’s name was found on the NBI suspect list equally stunned the government and the media.
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