MP Teuvo Hakkarainen has embarrassing night out with biker gang
MP was offered paid sex, but gave the woman EUR 100 out of pity
MP Teuvo Hakkarainen has embarrassing night out with biker gang
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Teuvo Hakkarainen, a Finns Party MP and one of the new intake from the elections of April 2011, has found it hard to stay out of the headlines since he entered Parliament, and usually for all the wrong reasons.
The latest chapter in the story concerns a liquid night out just over a week ago, after which Hakkarainen was reportedly offered paid sex in the clubhouse of the Bandidos biker gang in Helsinki's Kyläsaari.
The matter was first reported by the Nelonen TV-news.
Hakkarainen denies paying for sex, but says he gave the woman 100 euros out of pity.
Things are complicated a little by the fact that at least as far as the National Bureau of Investigation (Finland's central criminal police arm) are concerned, Bandidos are regarded as part of the organised crime network alongside the Hell's Angels and operations like the United Brotherhood (see link).
Hakkarainen, somewhat discomforted by the whole incident, reported that things had started from a liquid night out in a nightclub, and that having got "rather too drunk" he had gone on to an "after-party" at closing time (around 4 a.m.) with some persons whom he did not know beforehand.
"I was leaving and waiting for a taxi, when these guys came up to me and invited me to go on to another party. I would never have gone if I had known what group it was. I only found out when I got there."
Hakkarainen says he has not had anything to do with motorcycle gangs in the past, and that he did not ask for sexual services.
"I don't need that sort of thing. I don't quite remember how things went, but it may have been there was some joking around and anyway I gave the woman a hundred, but I said I don't need sex. I don't even know if she was a prostitute. Or whether they were just kidding me along", he recalls.
"I asked for the hundred back, but she wouldn't give it to me."
Hakkarainen says he regrets the incident, but does not believe it will affect his work or position as an MP.
Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner, the Finns Party group leader in Parliament, heard of the whole affair only from HS, and had no wish to comment.
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Pekka Ravi (National Coalition Party) was also unwilling to coment beyond saying: "Every Member of Parliament is himself or herself responsible for their behaviour and actions, and it is up to the voters to make judgements. An unfortunate business in any case."
