Antti Kaikkonen

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]

Antti Kaikkonen
Kaikkonen in 2019.
Minister of Defence
Assumed office
6 June 2019
Prime MinisterAntti Rinne
Sanna Marin
Preceded byJussi Niinistö
Member of the Finnish Parliament
Assumed office
19 March 2003
ConstituencyUusimaa
Personal details
Born
Antti Samuli Kaikkonen

(1974-02-14) 14 February 1974
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Political partyCentre
OccupationPolitician

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 fincance 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 January 16th 2012. In January 2013 the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust. [7] Kaikkonen didn't appeal his verdict. [8]

References
  1. "Antti Kaikkonen". Parliament of Finland. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  2. {{cite news |title=Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/suspended_prison_sentences_in_campaign_financing_scandal/6472350 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |work=YLE |date=30 January 2013
  3. "Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon". Helsingin Sanomat. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  4. 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.”
  5. "Säätiöjohtaja puolustaa vaalitukien jakamista". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 2009-09-21. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  6. "Kaikkonen jättää Nuorisosäätiön puheenjohtajuuden". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  7. Ovaskainen, Teppo. "Antti Kaikkoselle ehdollinen vankeustuomio". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  8. "Antti Kaikkonen: En valita tuomiosta – "Kaksinkertainen rangaistus"". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-09-01.


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