Finland charges tanker crew members of using anchor to sabotage undersea cables | Finland
Finnish officials dragged his anchor between Finland and Estonia and accused the members of an oil tanker crew suspected of damaging five submarine cables.
The General Directorate of Finland Prosecutor said on Monday that Kartal S. Kaptan and Kartal S. have made aggravated charges against telecommunications against the first and second officers of Kartal.
When the prosecutors claimed that they were dragging their iron to the sea bed for about 90km (56 miles) in December 2024, the ship carried oil along the Gulf of Finland from Ust-Luga in Russia.
At the end of last year, a few suspects for telecommunication services in the Scandinavian region were one of the hybrid attacks, the leaders threw high alarm, and caused accusations of infrastructure sabotage against Russia.
Finish officials seized Eagle S on 26 December last year, the emergency intervention team of the border guards and the police landed on the ship early in the morning.
The seizure was removed in February and the ship left Finland the next month.
Deputy General Prosecutor Jukka Rappe, said in a statement to the owners of the damage to the cables, Cinia and Elisa’ya “only repair costs at least 60 million €”, he said.
“Although the extremely high capacity electrical transmission and tearing of telecommunication cables are guaranteed by using alternative connections, it is suspected of a serious danger for energy supply and telecommunication in Finland.”
He said the defendants refused to do any mistake in the preliminary investigation. In a statement, they believed that Finland did not have judicial authority in this regard because cable damage areas were outside the Finnish territory ”.
The owner of Eagle S, the United Arab Emirates -based Caravella LLC FZ’s lawyer, said he had previously lacked Helsinki’s authority to intervene.
“The characteristics of the crimes, that is, the dangers caused by the crimes, the measures themselves took out of Finland, but occurred within the borders of Finland.”
Guardian told the judiciary authority that the problem of jurisdiction was “critical questions ,, but“ The effects of the crime in Finland here. This brings him to the judicial authority of Finland. [the] The Regional Court will decide whether Finland has the jurisdiction. “
Minister, the hearing in the last two years, other cable cutting incidents in the region will have an impact on investigations, he said. Because of its geographical positioning, Finland between Russia and Baltic is particularly vulnerable. Rappe is like an island because of the Baltic Sea.
The indictment was opened to the Helsinki Regional Court, which will decide on the date of the hearing. The state prosecutor, the prosecutor and the regional prosecutor were assigned to prosecute the accusations in the court.
Three suspects have been under the ban on travel in Finland since the beginning of the investigation.
Cinia was contacted for a comment. Elisa refrained from commenting.
