Supreme Court allows probation for two fraud convictions where no prior prison sentence exists.

The Supreme Court of Finland allowed the defendant's request to convert his prison sentence into probation. The defendant, previously unconvicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment, was sentenced to one year and eight months for two serious fraud offenses. The court ruled that since the defendant had never been sentenced to actual imprisonment before, the statutory conditions for granting probation were met, thereby permitting the suspension of the sentence.