(Yle) Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee says Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) broke the law in his efforts to repatriate Finnish citizens from the al-Hol camp in northern Syria — but he should not be prosecuted.
At a press conference on Wednesday evening, the committee said it had found that there is no reason to bring charges against the minister, who ran for president in 2012 and 2018.
The committee did, however, announce that Haavisto operated in contravention to the Administration Law and the Foreign Relations Act.
The matter turns on whether Haavisto was wrong to move senior foreign ministry official Pasi Tuominen to other duties after a difference of opinion over the repatriation of Finnish citizens from Syria.
