United Brotherhood gang leader sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison
Eastern Uusimaa District Court has sentenced Tero Holopainen, the kingpin of the United Brotherhood (UB) crime syndicate, to nine years and eight months in prison. The court declared on Monday that Holopainen has been UB’s de facto national leader since at least 2016. It also said that UB and its close affiliate Bad Union were organised groups dedicated to carrying out serious crimes. The court said that Holopainen oversaw an infrastructure and method of operations that ensured that UB could “systematically and extensively” continue to commit crimes even though many of its members were...