Two people arrested earlier this month on suspicion of financing terrorism and performing terror recruitment activities have foreign backgrounds, officials said Saturday. The detentions are the first known terror-linked arrests in the Nordic country. The Finnish Security Police said it began intelligence operations in 2009 that led to the arrests of the suspects on Sept. 7. Officers confiscated "data and other material" in house searches in the Helsinki metropolitan area after the arrests, according to a report of the Associated Press. A new custody hearing will be held for the suspects later this month.