Vantaa-based construction conglomerate owner arrested on suspicion of serious drug offence
The East Uusimaa District Court remanded a Vantaa-based construction industry entrepreneur in custody in January on suspicion of a serious drug offence. The company's annual turnover was over 24 million euros.
Construction entrepreneur remanded in custody on suspicion of drug offence
According to Yle.fi's information, the owner of a medium-sized Vantaa-based construction conglomerate has been held in custody on suspicion of a serious drug offence. The East Uusimaa District Court remanded the man in custody in January, after which the investigation leader released him in February.
The remand was connected to drug offences suspected in Vantaa in January, not the raid from last September. Police conducted a raid on a property owned by the man in September, and the case received widespread coverage at that time. Both criminal investigations are currently at the prosecution phase, and according to Yle.fi, the entrepreneur has been a suspect in both – there are other suspects as well.
The offence categories related to the remand case are serious drug offence, serious endangerment of traffic safety, and concealment. In the investigation related to the raid, the offence categories are drug use, concealment, and firearm offence.
Multi-million-euro company faced financial difficulties
The entrepreneur's construction conglomerate's turnover two years ago was over 24 million euros, and the company also made profits of several million. It participated in significant public contracts in the metropolitan area, including in the construction of the West Metro.
Recently, however, the company has encountered financial difficulties. It has debts of hundreds of thousands of euros in arrears, and has applied for corporate restructuring. In the restructuring application, the company argues that the Finnish Transport and Logistics Agency had excluded it from contracts.
Property known for criminal suspicions and disturbances
Yle reached the entrepreneur, but he declined to be interviewed. He commented in a message that he is innocent, but added: "Apologies and sorry to everyone who has been upset because of my actions." Later he clarified that he does not apologise for the offences he is suspected of committing, but "generally if someone has done this for some reason".
In previous investigations, weapons, ammunition and drugs have been confiscated from the entrepreneur. According to Yle.fi's information, the property owned by the man has a reputation within the drug user community as a place for dealing in stolen goods and drugs, and this is also confirmed in police documents.
In 2025 the entrepreneur was fined for concealment when a stolen electric scooter was found at the property. In 2024 a person walked out of the flat with alpha-PVP drugs worth hundreds of euros in their possession. That same year police found a bicycle suspected of being stolen and counterfeit money at the property. Police have also confiscated an unlicensed pistol from the flat on at least two occasions, and the entrepreneur received a suspended prison sentence for firearms offences in each case.
Neighbours report long-term disturbances
East Uusimaa police have had approximately forty tasks at the entrepreneur's property over a two-year period. Not all tasks are related to the entrepreneur himself, as the property has also had tenants. The entrepreneur told Yle that he moved out of the property last autumn.
According to neighbours interviewed by Yle.fi, the area around the property has become accustomed to various kinds of disturbances. In 2023 shots were fired at the property, and fire was returned from it – however, the shooters were not identified. A man running a nearby car repair shop says he repeatedly encountered people who were "completely out of it" on his property from late 2025 onwards.
"Everyone wonders why, given that the property looks like a luxury home," he says.
Yle is not publishing the entrepreneur's or company's name because the matter is still at the prosecution phase.
Source: Google News FI — Crime (fi)