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Where did you read that it had something to do with Helsinki police?

At least the money exchange took place in Tampere.

In Finnish: http://www.aamulehti.fi/Kotimaa/1194907965691/artikkeli/mtv+...

It's almost out of a movie. One of your larger national companies is being extorted and you fail to follow the people doing so?

It also had to be a pretty big vulnerability for them to have to pay that much in the first place.

It makes it sound like it was the keys to the castle.

It was. They could have signed any phone application to pretend like it was developed by Nokia, and therefore could have done anything to the phones (hence the malware angle).

And at the time Nokia was a major part of the entire finish economy - sounds like gross incompetence on the finish authorities.

It wasn't actually Helsinki police (this didn't even happen in Helsinki), but the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP).

You can't exactly arrest them without one of their partners releasing the key. Following them might not end well either.

I think blackmail would be enough to arrest them.

A solid showing by the Helsinki police

Or a very well planned getaway. Given that the culprits managed to steal Nokia's signing key, I suspect they knew what they were doing.