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Wed, 14 Aug, 2013 03:28:30 AM FTimes Report, August 14  File picture of Olavi J. Mattila. Photo - Lehtikuva Noted politician and former minister Olavi J Mattila died on Sunday, news agency STT reported on Tuesday, quoting the Finnish newspaper Aamuposti. He was 94.
According to the Aamuposti report, Mattila, who had a colourful political and business career died of old-age complications in Hyvinkää.
Born on October 24, 1918, Mattila was one of the close associates of former president Urho Kekkonen who played a key role in furthering the country’s state-owned companies.
Mattila was made a minister six times and discharged duties as a foreign minister and a trade and industry minister in 1963 to 1975.
He was elected the president of Valmet in 1965 and held the post till 1973 during his career as a business magnate.
He was also made the chairman of its board in 1973 and had worked in the position till 1982.
The politician got enmeshed in a scandal popularly known as Nigeria hoaxes in the 1990s and became a talk of the town across the country.
A Helsinki court sentenced him to four years and four months in conditional imprisonment in 2004 for the fraud. More News
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