Ship Detained In Baltic Sea Over Suspected Sabotage Of Undersea Data Cable

Swedish prosecutors announced on Sunday night that they opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” after a fibre optic cable connecting Latvia to Sweden’s Gotland Island, was damaged in the Baltic Sea.

The cable was ruptured earlier that day.

The Swedish Coast Guard confirmed it had detained a ship, identified as the Malta-flagged vessel Vezhen, which was anchored near Karlskrona. Authorities suspect the ship was involved in damaging the cable.

Mattias Lindholm, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard, stated they were closely monitoring the situation with the detained ship.

Tracking data from Vesselfinder shows that the Vezhen departed from the Russian port of Ust-Luga several days before the damage occurred and was in the area between Gotland and Latvia when the cable rupture was suspected.

Latvia’s state-r…

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