OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect could have been concerned in harm to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway, police stated Friday.
The Silver Dania was stopped on Thursday night and introduced into the port of Tromsø in northern Norway on Friday morning by a Norwegian coast guard vessel, Norwegian police stated in an announcement. They stated that adopted a request from Latvian authorities and a ruling by a Norwegian court docket.
Police stated there’s suspicion that the ship, which was crusing between the Russian ports of St. Petersburg and Murmansk, was concerned in critical harm to the cable within the Baltic Sea. They did not elaborate, however stated they have been looking the ship and conducting interviews.
Harm to the information transmission cable working from Ventspils, Latvia, to Gotland was detected on Sunday. Later that day, Swedish prosecutors introduced that they’d opened a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage and ordered the detention of a vessel suspected of damaging the cable, the Malta-flagged Vezhen.
That ship’s Bulgarian proprietor stated that it was doable that the Vezhen had unintentionally induced a cable to interrupt, however dismissed any risk of sabotage or some other motion on the a part of the crew.