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Fri, 05 Feb, 2016 12:05:16 AM FTimes – STT Report, Feb 5  File Photo – Lehtikuva. Helsinki police narcotics unit former chief Jari Aarnio surprisingly left the district court last morning following a threat issued against his family.
According to the defence, the threat was so serious that Aarnio asked permission to leave the hearing on drug charges and abuse of authority.
“This is such a serious threat against his family that Aarnio believes he has no choice but to act immediately,” his lawyer Riitta Leppiniemi said.
The nature of the threat, however, has not been revealed.
In the morning, the Helsinki District Court heard testimony from the Central Police (KRP), who found a cache in Aarnio’s yard containing tens of thousands of euros and also monitored his phone calls. The police said they found the cache with a detector.
“I started the search [in the yard] in the lower right corner, and before long, I heard the [detector] click. There was bark and topsoil, but less than had been applied [in the rest of the yard],” said a police official.
According to the testimony, the money bucket was inside a section of closed-off sewer pipe.
Aarnio told his wife during the pre-trial detention that bark should be spread in the yard. The wife forwarded the message on. On this basis, the KRP began to suspect that Aarnio may have hidden money in his yard.
Aarnio has denied that the money found belonged to him.
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