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Maija-Liisa Lahtinen (born September, 1949 in
Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
) is a former director of a Finnish foundation and museum ''Museum Villa Urpo'', which is named after her late husband, Finnish magazine publisher
Urpo Lahtinen Urpo Juhani Lahtinen was a Finland, Finnish magazine publisher. He was born on 22 April 1931 in Helsinki and died on 15 October 1994 in Tampere. Urpo Lahtinen started his journalistic career in 1952 writing for the Social Democratic paper ''Etee ...
. Mrs. Lahtinen became notorious in
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after the foundation she and her late husband had established was involved in multiple lawsuits started by Urpo Lahtinen's undistributed estate. In spring 2005, Mrs. Lahtinen was sentenced to three years in prison for gross fraudulent conversion, after which she disappeared in an apparent attempt to evade the prison sentence. Currently, she is living in Switzerland. There is a request from the Finnish authorities for the Swiss counterparts to return her to Finland, but by Swiss law, she cannot be sent to Finland. She is wanted by the
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after a request by Finnish officials. Her location in Switzerland is known to Finnish police and press. The civil and criminal lawsuits around the case are still largely open, and some of the lawsuits cannot be continued without the presence of Mrs. Lahtinen. In 2006, the court declared Mrs. Lahtinen bankrupt, because she had been ordered to compensate over 13 million euros to Urpo Lahtinen's undistributed estate in one of the lawsuits.


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1949 births Living people People from Helsinki Women museum directors Finland–Switzerland relations Finnish emigrants Immigrants to Switzerland {{Finland-bio-stub