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Monday, 26 April 2021
Janne Järvinen has been left off Finland’s sailing team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, weeks after being handed a prison sentence for money laundering and drug offences.
The Finnish Olympic Committee Board met on April 20 to determine who would partner Sinem Kurtbay in the Nacra 17 event at the Games.
Kurtbay and Järvinen had qualified Finland for the Olympic Games at the Lanzarote International Regatta last month, which served as a European qualifier.
Yet the organisation deliberated between Akseli Keskinen and Järvinen, with evidence presented in favour of each candidate.
Mika Lehtimäki, director of the Finnish Olympic Committee s Top Sports Unit, said the decision to select Keskinen over Järvinen had been made on sporting merit.
Helsinki District Court handed down verdicts in an exceptionally vast drug case on Thursday.
The court sentenced the main perpetrators of the so-called Katiska drug ring,
Niko Ranta-aho and
Janne Tranberg, to more than 10 years in prison for aggravated drug offenses and other charges.
The case was one of biggest drug investigations in Finnish history, involving the Cannonball and Hells Angels motorcycle gangs and an array of celebrities.
Tranberg was sentenced to 12 years and 11 months in prison, while Ranta-aho was handed an 11-year term. Seven other men were sentenced to 8-10 years in prison.
The prosecutor had demanded 13-year sentences for the two main defendants, the longest possible imprisonment for felony drug offences in Finland.