The Swedish navy said on Tuesday it had recovered from the Baltic Sea the anchor of an oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” and damaging four underwater telecoms cables and one power cable on December 25.
Sweden sent a submarine rescue vessel to assist Finland in the investigation last week.
“The HMS Belos has located and lifted the anchor and handed it over to Finnish authorities,” said Swedish navy spokesman Jimmie Adamsson.
The Eagle S, flying the Cook Islands flag, is suspected of having damaged the EstLink 2 electricity cable between Finland and Estonia in the Baltic on December 25, putting it out of action.
Finnish police said on December 29 that they had found a trail from the anchor stretching dozens of kilometres along the seabed.
The national energy agency Fingrid said it had requested that authorities seize the tanker.
Finnish authorities have banned eight crew from leaving Finnish territory. Finnish customs have said they suspect the tanker, currently located east of Helsinki, is part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” – ships that carry Russian crude oil and petroleum products that are embargoed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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