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Arvid Ojasti
Birth name	Arvid Edvard Fagerström
Nickname(s)	Arvi
Born	18 June 1903 Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	6 December 1963(1963-12-06) (aged 60) Maturín, Monagas, Venezuela
Cause of death	Gunshot wounds

Allegiance	Finland
Service / branch	State Police
Battles / wars	World War II Winter War Continuation War

Arvid (Arvi) Edvard Ojasti (born Arvid Fagerström; 18 June 1903 – 6 December 1963) was a Finnish chief detective of the ValPo.

In July 1941, during the Continuation War, Ojasti, who worked as a superior in ValPo's Rovaniemi department, was ordered to join a 12-man Finnish group assisting German SS-Untersturmführer Wilhelm Laqua, the commander of Einsatzkommando Finnland, in Kirkenes, Norway. He was involved in the transfer of prisoners of war and executions. In the fall of 1941, men from the Finnish group worked in Nazi concentration camps in Norway. Some of them also moved with the Germans to the Soviet side in Karelia, where they supervised the local population and hunted for communists. At the end of the Continuation War and Finland switched sides, Ojasti joined the pro-German movement, and was transferred to the service of the German security police under Laqua.^[1]^[2]

After the end of the war, Ojasti fled to Norway, then Sweden, and finally Venezuela, where many other Finnish Nazis wanted for war crimes had moved to exile. Ojasti also assisted with the trade-ins of wartime loot. He traded with fellow fugitive Aarne Kauhanen.^[3] Ojasti became a farmer, before working as a biology professor at the University of Caracas.^[4] In December 1963, he was shot and killed under unclear circumstances by a military patrol at roadblock in the city of Maturín.^[1]^{[failed verification]}

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^ ^a ^b Uola, Mikko: Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944–1953. Helsinki: Minerva, 2013. ISBN 978-952-492-768-0.
^ Enbuske, Matti (8 October 2008). "Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisien yhteistyön salainen historia". Agricola (Book review) (in Finnish).
^ Silvennoinen, Oula (2008). Salaiset aseveljet: Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisiyhteistyö 1933–1944, (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 306, 319. ISBN 978-951-12150-1-1.
^ Uola, Mikko (2013-10-15). Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944-1953 (in Finnish). Minerva. p. 153. ISBN 978-952-492-816-8.

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