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Archive for January, 2009
Eurovision Song Contest
January 31, 2009Madonna in Helsinki
January 29, 2009UPDATED: CONFIRMATION
Tickets should be available already next week. Concert should be on August 6th 2009.
Event organizer Live Nation has rented Jätkäsaari location from Helsinki city. This outdoors location fits about 80 000 people.
Tickets will be for on Monday 9th at 09:00 AM local time. Lippupiste has more or less same info as Live Nation about tickets.
This is ”Sticky & Sweet 2009″ tour including now countries where Madonna has never performed before.
Tina Turner in Helsinki
January 26, 2009Tina Turner will be in Helsinki Hartwall Arena 23rd and 24th of April. Tickets will be available Monday next week, 2nd of February at lippu.fi. Previous visit to Finland was year 2000 Twenty Four Seven tour.
Laura Pausini
January 21, 2009Laura Pausini will be in Tampere 17th May, 18th in Turku and 20th in Helsinki.
Tickets are available at lippu.fi with price range 55 to 75 euro.
WinCapita News
January 21, 2009Today in news we have confirmation that WinCapita was total scam and there was never done any real trading. Finnish police informs that Hannu Kailajärvi has told this information in pre-trial investigation. He has also explained how trading software showed events only on screen, but nothing really happened. All funds and transactions were only between WinCapita and its members. In other words, money collected from new members went to senior members.
National Bureau of Investigation
has following statement at their web site:
“[police] advises all those who think that they have become victims of crime within the activity of the club to report the matter to the police.
People living in Finlad can report to the local police. People living abroad are asked to contact the investigating unit by telephone”
Finnish notice from police is here.
Bruce Springsteen in Tampere
January 20, 2009Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be in Finland this summer. The concert will be 2nd of June in Tampere Ratina Stadion.
Previously Springsteen has been in Finland only few times. In 2003 he performed in Helsinki twice to full stadium.
Tickets will be available next week at Lippupiste.
Box Office Record in Finland
January 9, 2009The Christmas movie Niko & The Way to the Stars (Niko – Lentäjän poika) has become one of Finland’s most successful cinema exports of all time. The 6.1 million euro computer animation was produced in co-operation with Irish, Danish and German partners. At the end of 2008, it was the most-watched film in seven countries, including Finland.
Link to the movie web site is: http://www.nikomovie.com/
Site has picture gallery and 40MB trailer.
Way to the Stars movie
Directa Oy
January 8, 2009Directa has been in news few times last year. Mainly small business owners are quite angry at Directa. They feel that Directa is cheating and selling so called directory services by phone, but price and delivered products are not what have been promised. People think that they agreed to pay 49 euro annual fee, but Directa sends them 10 times bigger bills, over 400 euros.
MTV3 TV channel had Directa in its news several times. Finnish police is currently investigating few hundred requests from angry Directa clients.
Huijaa.info web site was established by several business people so that Directa clients could have place to discuss issues they have with this company. Several other forums or blogs were censored before this happened. Web blog Lehmätkin lentäis (cows could fly) did not censor its comments (at this moment over 500 of them) even when attorney hired by Directa called the blogger.
Several Finnish blogs follow Directa case and have many posts about it. Huijaus blog and Pate Ylinen have both several items about Directa.
Directa Oy was established in 1999. Company provides contact information and directory services. MTV3 reported also about issues they found from past actions done by Directa managers and owners. Managing director Ville Komppa and sales manager both have been involved in charity organizations, but it seems to difficult to find financial information and where the raised charity founds went.
WinCapita
January 8, 2009One huge scam hit the news in Finland in March 2008 when WinCapita investment club site was taken offline. During last year it was one of the most active issue in net forums. For example Muro BBS forum got over 1000 pages of posts last year. Thats about 25 000 posts about one topic. WinCapita surely has been in news, blogs and forums so widely that anyone in Finland must know it.
Main operator, Hannu Kalevi Kailajärvi, behind WinCapita was arrested in Sweden some time ago and is already trasferred to Finnish jail. He managed to hide from police about half year. Another main suspect was caught in Helsinki airport when he arrived from Thailand.
Investment club managed to collect about 100 000 000 euros until it went offline. There was about 10 000 people involved. This seems to the biggest scam ever happened in Finland.
See also: Wikipedia, WinCapita
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January 8, 2009Welcome to In Finland blog!
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