Crime in Estonia
The trend was started by Raivo Roosna and Aleks Lepajõe who robbed the Tillander store
in Helsinki in 1985. In December 2006, it was estimated that Estonian criminals were
responsible for 140 robberies of jewellery and watch stores in Finland, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Sweden
during the last three years. The value of the lost property is estimated to be 25 million
Euros.[1]
Today transnational Estonian organised crime is predominantly about smuggling drugs,