Syyttäjän tehtävänä on nostaa rikoksesta syyte ja ajaa sitä.

Syytteen nostamisen edellytyksistä säädetään 6 §:n 1 momentissa. Lisäksi noudatetaan, mitä asianomistajan syyttämispyynnöstä ja muista erityisistä syytteen nostamisen edellytyksistä muualla laissa säädetään.

The duty of the prosecutor is to bring charges for an offence and to pursue the charges.

The prerequisites for bringing charges are laid down in section 6(1). Provisions laid down elsewhere by law on a request of an injured party for the bringing of charges and on other special prerequisites for bringing charges also apply.

The English translation follows the Ministry of Justice’s published translation of the Criminal Procedure Act; the translation is legally binding only in Finnish and Swedish.

This section defines the prosecutor’s core procedural role. It must be read together with section 6 on the threshold for bringing charges, the provisions on waiver of charges, and any offence-specific requirement for a victim’s request for prosecution.

It does not permit the prosecutor to assume that a required complaint or request exists without checking the relevant case materials where that requirement matters.

Finlex — Finnish statutory text

Finlex — English translation (amendments tracked through 205/2023)