Finnish Police Release Russia-Linked Ship Held in Cable Sabotage Case
Finnish police said on Monday they had lifted the seizure of a ship which had been held on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland, although the investigation continues.
Finland seized the Fitburg cargo ship on December 31 while en route from Russia to Israel, and detained one crew member as part of the investigation. The ship will leave Finland’s territorial waters on Monday, police said in a statement.
“Finnish and Estonian police have completed their work on board the vessel, and the seizure can therefore be lifted,” head of the investigation at Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation, Risto Lohi, said in the statement.
Some of the ship’s crew remain under a travel ban, he added.
(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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