Finland seizes three private planes of sanctioned Russians

Finnish law enforcement agencies have confiscated three private planes belonging to Russian citizens.

The Finnish police suspect that the aircraft operated by the Finnish airline Polar Aviation Oy belong to or are used by Russians who are on the sanctions lists of the European Union and the United States, TASS reports, citing Finnish TV channel YLE.

Polar Aviation itself denies that these Russian citizens were its clients.

“We have nothing to do with them,” the channel quotes a representative of a Finnish company as saying.

Polar Aviation's activities are completely transparent to international aviation and various authorities, one of the company's lawyers said.