Sakari "Saku" Timonen (born 18 December 1957 in Juuka, Finland) is a Finnish blogger, known for his "Uuninpankkopoika" blog.
[8] Timonen started his blog in 2010 and has used it to correct false information about alleged social benefits given to immigrants.
He has often been asked to participate in current affairs programs and panel discussions on television, but he does not view himself as a public presenter, but instead wishes to remain talking through his text.
Timonen's blog post was met with hate mail including threats of physical violence.
[11] In June 2015 Timonen wrote about Finns Party parliament member Olli Immonen's connections to the Neo-Nazi organisation Finnish Resistance Movement, after which a denial-of-service attack as made to his blog service.
[9] In March 2016 a Finns Party council member of Salo who had been harassing and insulting Timonen for a long time was dismissed from his post as a lay judge, when the district court of Finland Proper saw that his Internet writing was in conflict with the behaviour expected of a judge.
[14] On Independence Day 2015 Timonen received an award from the Committee of 100 from his work in dealing with problems in Finnish society.