Antti Kaikkonen
 | This article is missing information about Kaikkonen's corruption conviction. (June 2019) |
Antti Kaikkonen | |
|---|---|
 Kaikkonen in 2019. | |
| Minister of Defence | |
| Assumed office 6 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Antti Rinne Sanna Marin |
| Preceded by | Jussi Niinistö |
| Member of the Finnish Parliament | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2003 | |
| Constituency | Uusimaa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Antti Samuli Kaikkonen 14 February 1974 Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland |
| Political party | Centre |
| Occupation | Politician |
Antti Samuli Kaikkonen (born 14 February 1974 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish politician of the Centre party. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from Uusimaa since 2003. Kaikkonen was the president of Finnish Centre Youth from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe since 2004.[1]
In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal.[2]
On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.[3]
By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party. Amidst the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared “everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”[4]
Campaign finance scandal[]
In the autumn of 2009, Kaikkonen received his share of the campaign finance. At that time, it was brought to public, that the Youth Foundation, of which Kaikkonen had been the chairman of the board since 2003, had distributed election support money to Kaikkonen, in municipal-, parliamentary-, and European Parlament -elections. In addition, it had also financed Matti Vanhanen's presidential election campaign, among other things.[5] Kaikkonen resigned from the chairman's place, and then stayed as a member of the board.[6]
The prosecutor demanded Kaikkonen's imprisonment in the Youth Foundation bribery trial, that began on 16 January 2012. In January 2013 the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust.[7] He did not appeal his verdict.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Antti Kaikkonen". Parliament of Finland. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal". YLE. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon". Helsingin Sanomat. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ Tarmo Virki (13 January 2019). "Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election". Reuters. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: “Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”
- ^ "Säätiöjohtaja puolustaa vaalitukien jakamista". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 21 September 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Kaikkonen jättää Nuorisosäätiön puheenjohtajuuden". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ Ovaskainen, Teppo. "Antti Kaikkoselle ehdollinen vankeustuomio". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Antti Kaikkonen: En valita tuomiosta – "Kaksinkertainen rangaistus"". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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