Owner of Suspected Sabotage Ship Loses Bid to Get Anchor Back From Police

Earlier this month, the owner of the “shadow fleet” tanker Eagle S lost a court appeal to regain the freedom of their vessel, which has been held in Finland for an investigation into suspected cable sabotage. On Wednesday, the shipowner also lost a bid to take back the ship’s anchor, which Finnish authorities found on the seabed near the cable breaks.

Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation believes that it has evidence connecting Eagle S to the outage. On December 25, when  Fingrid’s EstLink 2 power transmission cable and four subsea telecom cables suddenly shut down, government responders quickly linked the breaks to the position of Eagle S, an LR1 that had just departed the Russian…