Police in Riga on Thursday detained Arto Autio,a Finnish national previously listed on Interpol’s wanted notices, whom Finland seeks to prosecute in the country’s largest corruption scandal and who owns property in Latvia. The arrest was confirmed to Re:Baltica by Latvia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, as well as by eyewitnesses and individuals connected to Autio’s business activities.
Hungary has protected two Kremlin-linked oligarchs from European Union (EU) sanctions. These individuals, who control the Riga Electrical Machinery Factory (RER), have been aiding the Russian army in its invasion of Ukraine, according to information obtained by Re:Baltica.
Re:Baltica for the first time publishes a list of the largest importers of Russian resources in Latvia since Russia's full-scale invasion in Ukraine. The main commodities are those shipment of which civil society protests against - grain, oil products and metal alloys.