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    Estonia is a relatively safe country, and the risk of being a victim of crime in Estonia is small by international standards. As in other post-Soviet...
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  • Imre Arakas (category Organized crime in Ireland)
    Russian organised crime that killed over a hundred people. Arakas was nearly killed on more than one occasion. He left Estonia for Spain in 1998. A failed...
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    Danske Bank money laundering scandal (category Crime in Estonia)
    laundering scandal arose in 2017-2018, when it became known that around €800 billion of suspicious transactions had flowed from Estonian, Russian, Latvian and...
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  • A number of war crimes trials were held during the Soviet occupation of Estonia (1944–1991). The best-known trial was brought in 1961, by the Soviet authorities...
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    Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across...
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  • within organized crime and correctional facility environments and who has informal authority over lower-status members. The phrase "thief in law" is a calque...
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  • constitute a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Estonia and acknowledged as such by the European Court of Human Rights. In Estonia, as well as in other...
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  • of radioactive material in Tammiku took place in 1994. Three brothers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish (Harju County), Estonia, who were scrap metal scavengers...
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  • Estonia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Partners in Crime" written by Berit Veiber and Hendrik Sal-Saller. The song was...
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    In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence...
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