Reiljan trying to escape jail sentenceWhile there is a summer break in the trial of former Center Party chairman and suspended mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar, the accused parties are holding negotiations with the prosecutor's office to reach possible compromises, something which is necessary for former top politician Villu Reiljan, who is currently carrying a probationary sentence for accepting bribes but might have to face a real jail sentence.Local News
Hit plan let down by SMSEstonian Imre Arakas, who is under constant police attention in Europe courtesy of his infamous reputation, was caught planning a professional hit in Ireland. He is believed to be connected to several contract killings abroad.Local News
Estonian court denies early release to traitor Herman SimmEstonia's Tartu county court on Wednesday decided not to grant early release on parole to Herman Simm, a former senior national security official convicted of treason in 2009.Local News
Man behind bomb threats sent to prisonHarju County Court convicted Russian activist Vladislav Pälling (33) of making bomb threats against flights from Estonia to Germany in the name of Islamic extremists last July in agreement process and sent him to prison for a period of four months yesterday.Local News
Blackmail using nudesIt all started with words. “See, now you have a man who appreciates you and treats you like a princess,” 37-year-old hobby actor and cashier Margus Sepp wrote to one of his victims in October of 2014. A little later he added: “Darling, you are in my heart, and soul, and head every minute.” (spelling unchanged here and elsewhere – ed.)Local News
Cornerstone laid for new compound of Tallinn prisonIn a ceremony on Tuesday, Estonia laid the cornerstone for the new Tallinn prison that is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.Local News
Estonian court sends to prison two Lithuanian car thievesThe Tartu county court on Monday sent to prison two Lithuanian car thieves who belonged to a criminal group who stole cars and sold them in Lithuania.Local News
Threat to kill lands man in prisonYesterday, Harju County Court judged Martin Kattai who had threatened to kill Prime Minister as guilty and pinished him with two years in prison, of which he will immediately have to serve three months.Local News
«I stay away from the Al-Qaeda and Taliban bunch and mind my own business» Ship guard answers our questions from prison in IndiaIt's quite a feat for the ship guards to talk to loved ones. Cannot call over the phone, no Internet... The usual is for acquaintances to take letters into the prison, and then take the answers out. My interview with Lauri Ader went via his mother emailing back and forth with people in India.Estonian news
On road towards smoke free prisons, fuelled by fruit and sudokuThis May, Estonian prisons entered a healthy living motivational programme to prepare inmates for November 1st when all prisons should be smoke free.Health
Estonian formin expresses gladness over Savchenko's releaseEstonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand on Wednesday expressed gladness over the release of Ukrainian pilot and member of the parliament Nadiya Savchenko, and said that the whole trial was at variance with the principles of administration of justice.Estonian news
Estonian cyberscam defendant sentenced to 7 yrs in jail in USEstonian businessman Vladimir Tsastsin has been sentenced in New York to over seven years in prison for his role in a cyberscam that infected 4 million computers in over 100 countries.Estonian news
Fraudster, saint or two-faced Janus?Court verdicts say that the businessman Raivo Paala is a hardened veteran fraudster who has tried to cheat the state with hundreds of millions of euros. Meanwhile, Mr Paala has this other face of an uncompromising fighter for human rights.Local News
Abused own baby, worked at child careDespite the law setting restrictions on background for child care worker, employers have lots of room for discretion. As an example of that, a mother worked at a Tallinn child care having previously endangered the life of her own son whom she also severely mistreated.Local News
Estonian appeals court leaves school shooter's punishment unchangedThe Tartu circuit court on Thursday upheld for the most part the ruling of the lower-level Tartu county court in the case of the Viljandi school shooter, including the punishment meted out to the youngster.Local News
Manhunt by minor scoundrels in central TallinnThe very day the public was pondering the brutality of crooks who beat up a father of small child in Tartu, a most cynical gang of young scoundrels quietly got their verdict for beating up people in Tallinn basically just for the fun of it.Local News
Dead drug dealer caught alive in Russia«How can you be here, if you are dead?» Harju county judge Märt Toming asked the accused drug dealer Sergei Grigorjev (44) in court on Friday morning.Local News
Estonia stands out with high rate of prisoners among European countriesEstonia is in the forefront in the relative number of prisoners, length of prison sentence as well as the rate of people sentenced to prison for drug crimes, it can be seen from data published by the Council of Europe on Tuesday.Local News
«Pro» ranks thinnedIn two initial months of the year the police caught eight professional thieves in Tallinn. A record. «An excellent result,» observed Toomas Jervson of Northern prefecture. His «apartment group» hunting the burglars day in and day out, eight arrests is over 10 percent of the total of 70 or so in the business in Tallinn.Local News
Russia arrests Estonian businessman on spying chargesRussian special services last week arrested an Estonian citizen, Raivo Susi, and are investigating the activities of the businessman who engaged in the purchase and sale of training aircraft as alleged espionage, Interfax said.Local News
Estonian ship guards imprisoned in India decide to appealEstonian ship guards who were on Jan. 11 sentenced to prison for five years in India have decided to appeal the decision and at the same time submit a request to be released for bail, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said.Local News
«Thief in Law» epitome shocks court by owning upThis Wednesday, Harju County Court was served the surprise of its life: a most notorious criminal in Estonia and for decades making it his principle to avoid any cooperation with authorities, Chechen Ruslan Junusov announced he pleaded guilty in robbery and desired agreed punishment.Local News
Having abandoned ship guards, employer still in business Advantfort probed by Postimees in journalistic experimentAdvanfort, employer of the ships guards jailed in India, is still in business and, surprisingly, even contacted Estonian foreign ministry last week promising to help the Seaman Guard Ohio crew now behind bars.Estonian news
Five years in jail explainedWhile lawyer to ship guards Palanivel Muthusamy claimed they managed to refute almost all accusations against the Estonians, the verdicts reveals that only two fell away from five.Estonian news
Editorial: how much more left to live as inmates in India?After over two long years in India, the five year prison sentence was bad news for ship guards and loved ones. And to all of us hoping for the best.Opinion
Estonian court gives life sentence to man who killed 2 in NarvaThe Viru county court in northeastern Estonia on Thursday found 30-year-old Anton Bulbenko guilty of killing two people and a threat to kill a third person and sentenced him to life in prison.Local News
UK court gives long jail terms to Estonian watch robbersThe Leeds Crown Court on Monday handed down long prison sentences to three Estonian men it found guilty of a robbery conspiracy in which high value watches worth approximately 1.3 million euros were stolen at gunpoint in Leeds and in London, Yorkshire Evening Post said.Local News
Juvenile shooter of teacher jailed for nine yearsToday, court sentenced boy who shot his teacher last fall at German lesson in Paalalinna School, Viljandi for nine years in prison for murder.Local News
Two men break out from Tallinn PrisonOn Saturday night just before 3 am, two inmates escaped from Tallinn Prison: Aleksandr Suhotski and Eduard Mihhailov.Local News
The chips stall guy and his cocaine bizNot limited to selling fish and chips in Baltic Railway Station, Tallinn, Andrei Izotov was in cocaine business landing him behind bars for eight years along with confiscation of personal assets.Local News
Estonian president thanks Kohver for remaining firm in prisonPaying a visit to Eston Kohver, official of the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) sentenced to 15 years in jail in Russia in August and then exchanged for a former ISS staffer convicted of treason in Estonia, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves thanked Kohver for remaining firm, brave and loyal in captivity.Local News
Estonian ForMin unaware of Kohver's whereaboutsThe Estonian Foreign Ministry has admitted it does not know the present whereabouts of Eston Kohver, the Internal Security Service (ISS) staffer sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Russian court in August, as it has not received any official information about it.Local News
Conviction of Estonian security official takes effect in RussiaThe conviction of Eston Kohver, the Estonian security police officer who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Russia on Aug. 19, stepped into force, the Pskov regional court reports on its home page.Estonian news
McCain: Kohver must be released immediatelySpeaking at a press conference in Tallinn on Friday, U.S. Senator John McCain called the sentencing of Estonian security official Eston Kohver in Russia unjust and said Kohver must be released immediately.Local News
Estonia to continue paying Eston Kohver his salaryEston Kohver, the staffer of the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) kept in detention in Russia for almost a year and sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Russian court on Wednesday, continues to receive his monthly salary from ISS.Local News
Mother: She was my only child. She is no more...«Why?» sighed mothers and fathers all over the land, hearing about the tragic traffic accident that took the lives of four young people in Tartu County this Tuesday. Just some soundness of mind could have avoided it all.Local News
Kohver kept in isolatorTill the trial is in process, Eston Kohver is being held in Isolator No 1 of Pskov Prison.Estonian news
Kohver's fate in hands of FSB counterintelligence head?Held captive in Russia for nearly eleven months, fate of Estonian security police officer Eston Kohver may be decided by Vladislav Menshchkov – fresh counterintelligence chief at his captor, Russia's influential federal security service FSB.Estonian news
Judge presiding over Estonian security official's trial in Russia replacedThe case of Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) official Eston Kohver charged with spying in Russia has been handed over to judge Yulia Ulanova of the Pskov regional court.Estonian news
Russian court extends custody for jailed Estonian security officialA court in the northwestern Russian regional capital Pskov on Friday extended custody for Eston Kohver, staffer of the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) held in Russia on charges of espionage, possession and smuggling of a firearm, for two more months starting Aug. 8.Estonian news
Estonian prison investments twice smaller than in FinlandOn pages of Iltalehti, Finnish parliamentarian Laura Huhtasaari said conditions in Estonian prisons were so bad that should Finnish sexual offenders sit behind Estonian bars, the environment would serve as additional disciplinary punishment. Postimees sought to specify the differences.Economy
Court verdict becomes final for Estonia's 41st convict sentenced to lifeThe stepping into force on Wednesday of the life sentence handed down to Oleg Pitjukov by a court in the southwestern resort town Parnu for murder and causing of serious physical harm in January brings the number of convicts serving a life sentence in Estonian jails to 41.Local News
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