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Finnish Minister admits sending 200 dirty texts to erotic dancer from taxpayer-funded phone
Last updated at 23:27pm on 11th March 2008

Ilkka Kanerva has admitted to sending the text messages
Finland's foreign minister yesterday admitted being involved with a topless dancer and her porn star sister.

Ilkka Kanerva, 60, confirmed today that he has sent text messages to Johanna Tukiainen, a member of the erotic dance group Dolls, and to her sister.

"Messages have been sent, but not in the sense of any deep drama of human relationships", Kanerva said in Brussels at a press conference held after a European Union foreign ministers' meeting.

When asked if he knew Tukiainen, Kanerva answered: "Yes, but I wouldn't make any diagnosis," the Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat reported today.

He reportedly saw nothing wrong in his having sent private SMS messages from his taxpayer-funded mobile telephone.

Dancer Johanna Tukiainen told the press that she was surprised at the extent of the brouhaha sparked by the messages.

She said that she initially saved the messages as evidence, but that she is now thinking about possibly publishing them. All she would say about the content of the messages was that they contain "personal material".

"Men are men," she is quoted as saying. "I think that Kanerva has good taste in women in other respects as well."

The scandal may not have a negative impact on Kanerva's political credibility, however.

Johanna Tukiainen, left, pictured here with her sister, whom Kanerva is also accused of texting

Earlier this month Finland's prime minister, who accused his former lover of hurting his feelings by writing a steamy kiss-and-tell account of their relationship, lost a court case over the book but unexpectedly gained popularity.

Matti Vanhanen, 52, prime minister since 2003, has been enjoying a wave of support since the disclosure that he likes to take a sauna before sex and enjoys his favourite meal of beef and baked potatoes afterwards.

The book was timed to be released just before the country's general election last year - and Vanhanen was re-elected.

Though some MPs have voiced their displeasure at the latest scandal, the chairman of Kanerva's National Coalition Party said merely that if the story was true, he hoped Kanerva would use more consideration in the future.

Kanerva said the matter of his political credibility was up to the voters.

Johanna Tukiainen, left, said she does not understand what the fuss is about

On Friday, when approached by a reporter working for the Swedish language service of YLE, he appeared to deny sending the messages, as claimed in a story in the gossip magazine Hymy. According to the magazine, Kanerva had sent about 200 intimate text messages to Tukiainen from his work telephone.

However today Kanerva denied the denial, saying that when he answered "no" to the journalist, he was simply indicating that he did not want to comment on the reports.

MP Helena Virkkunen, chairwoman of the women's organisation of the National Coalition Party, said that the uproar over the text messages "does not show good consideration" on the part of Foreign Minister Kanerva.

"Politics is evaluated as a whole. This does not give a good impression", Virkkunen noted. She said that she expects that the matter will be discussed in the National Coalition Party's Parliamentary group.

Hymy editor-in-chief Esko Tulusto says that the magazine is considering whether or not to publish the content of Kanerva's text messages.

"Of course we have the messages. We would not have published the story if we had not been certain that they are genuine", Tulusto insisted today.

"We did not publish them right away because text messages have been seen as having the equivalent of mail confidentiality. We are pondering whether or not to publish the messages in the next issue."

This is not the first time that text messages sent by Kanerva have raised controversy. In the spring of 2005 Marika Fingerroos, a woman who had worked as a nude model, revealed that she had received text messages from Kanerva, who was Deputy Speaker of Parliament at the time.