Cleaner’s equipment cart at Ruoholahti shopping centre in Helsinki. Photo: Lehtikuva
Domestic
A Helsinki District Court has sentenced the chief executive of a cleaning company to one year and 10 months in prison after finding that the company collected more than €60,000 from foreign job seekers through a recruitment scheme built around jobs that did not exist.
The court ruled on 26 June that the executive committed aggravated fraud after applicants paid illegal recruitment fees in exchange for promised employment and work-based residence permits in Finland. Two other defendants received convictions for assisting the fraud, while charges against a fourth defendant were dismissed.
The judgment is not yet final.
