Martin Kinnunen
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Martin Anders Kinnunen, (born 15 May 1983) is a Swedish-Finnish politician who is working for the Sweden Democrats party. He is the party secretary for the party, and was previously the unionleader for the partys youth organisation, called Sweden Democrats Youth (SDU) between 2005 and 2007. He took over that position from Jimmie Åkesson and was succeedeed by Erik Almqvist. Kinnunen has also worked as an office secretary for the Sweden democrats national organisation in Stockholm, he left the position in late 2009. Kinnunen and his fiancee were assaulted and beaten at an attack at Gullmarsplan subway station in Stockholm on the 6 June 2009. Three women were later convicted for the attack on Kinnunen and one man was sentenced to prison for the same attack.
On the 29 September 2015, Kinnunen was charged with two cases of tax fraud. He was accused of embezzling large amounts of money while working for the Sweden Democrat owned companys Samtid och Framtid and Blåsippan AB. He was acquitted of all charged by the district court on 5 February 2016. However, as continued trials proceeded in November 2016, it was revealed that Kinunnen had authorized fraudulent dates on the concerned invoices; the final outcome is thus as yet unknown, although he stated on November 22 that even if he is found guilty of serious tax fraud on behalf of the SweDems, he will continue as a SweDem politician without issue On December 6, 2016, the Court of Appeal found him guilty of accounting fraud. He was sentenced to a fine of approximately 9,000 EUR while the SweDem owned company was fined 30,000EUR for fraudulent accounting and tax evasion.