Supreme Court dismisses combined penalty claim where one crime predates the extortion law and the other falls under a fine-only regime.

The Supreme Court of Finland dismissed the respondent's claim for a combined penalty based on two distinct criminal acts. The respondent argued that one crime committed before the Extortion Act came into force warranted a prison sentence, while a second crime committed after the law's enactment should result in a fine. The court ruled that the statutory conditions for imposing a combined penalty were not met because the crimes did not satisfy the necessary temporal and sentencing requirements under the relevant law.