On Monday, the district court released Kivimäki from remand custody and ordered him to a travel ban.
In the Vastamo trial Today, an expert from the Central Criminal Police (KRP) will be heard about a recently revealed screen which, according to the prosecutors, supports the charges Aleksanteri Kivimäki against.
When the data breach targeting Vastaamo came to light, KRP made a fake purchase to the bitcoin address of Vastaamo's extortionist. According to KRP, the money ended up in the accounts of Kivimäki and another man living in Estonia through various twists and turns, and after sometimes being converted into monero virtual currency.
On their website monero advertises itself as a cryptocurrency where transactions made with it cannot be traced. In the KRP's additional investigation protocol, the part about monero analysis is completely encrypted.
Earlier, Kivimäki disputed the police's findings in court and said that it has not been possible to find out the movements of the money in the way the police had told.
The role of the man living in Estonia is unclear. The Estonian police have interviewed the man and the KRP has said that they will find out if there is reason to suspect him of a crime.
Processing today attention is also focused on whether Kivimäki will arrive. After more than a year in pretrial detention, he was released by the district court's decision on Monday. Instead of remand, he was placed under a travel ban.
The district court took into account the duration of pretrial detention so far and the fact that the charges in the case have been read and Kivimäki has answered them. In addition, he has already been heard personally at the courts. Consequently, he no longer has the obligation to come to the district court on the remaining hearing days.
Kivimäki, 26, is accused in the trial that started at the end of October, among other things, of aggravated data breach and aggravated blackmail. The prosecutors demanded a seven-year prison sentence for Kivimäki for crimes against a total of more than 21,000 victims.
Kivimäki is accused of aggravated data breach, about 9,600 aggravated dissemination of information infringing private life, more than 21,300 aggravated blackmail attempts and 20 aggravated extortion. He has denied all the charges.
Prosecutors according to the subpoena application, in November 2018 Kivimäki “alone or with unknown people” broke into Vastaamo's information system and downloaded the patient database containing the information of 33,000 people for himself.
It is suspected that the distribution of patient information and extortion with it started in the fall of 2020. According to the prosecutors, Kivimäki sent Vastaamo a blackmail message by email at that time, in which he demanded that the company pay him 40 bitcoins, which was equivalent to 366,000 euros. A sum of money was demanded in exchange for not publishing patient information.
When the demands were not agreed to, according to the prosecutors, Kivimäki started publishing patient information at the end of October 2020. The information was mainly published on the dark Internet Tor network. After this, according to the prosecutors, Kivimäki sent a blackmail message to people who were in Vastaamo's patient database. Some of the victims paid the required amount.
The police started investigating the Vastaamo case in the fall of 2020. Kivimäki was arrested in February last year in the commune of Courbevoie near Paris, France.
According to the French media, the local police went to the apartment for a home alarm mission, and the man in the apartment showed the police Romanian identity papers. When the police checked the man's information, it turned out that this was a Finnish man suspected of the Vastaamo data breach.
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