2 days ago · STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors decided Monday to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial suspicions that sabotage caused damage to an undersea fiber-optic cable between Sweden and Latvia.. Damage to the cable running between the Latvian city of Ventspils and the Swedish island of Gotland was detected on Jan. 26 and the vessel was seized by ...

2 days ago · STOCKHOLM -- Swedish prosecutors decided Monday to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial suspicions that sabotage caused damage to an undersea fiber ...

Swedish prosecutors on Monday ruled out sabotage in the case of a damaged undersea cable and said they were releasing a Bulgarian ship seized in connection with the incident, determining the ...

2 days ago · The cargo ship Vezhen did damage a subsea cable linking Sweden and Latvia last month but it was an accident, not sabotage, a Swedish prosecutor said on Monday, adding that the Maltese-flagged ...

2 days ago · Swedish investigators have found that bad weather, deficient equipment and poor seamanship were responsible for the latest Baltic Sea cable disruption — not sabotage. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, from Sweden’s National Security Unit, said in a statement Monday that the vessel that broke an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and ...

Swedish investigators have concluded that damage sustained by an underwater data cable beneath the Baltic Sea at the end of January was not a result of intentional sabotage and have released a ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Swedish prosecutors announced on Sunday night that they had launched a preliminary investigation on suspicion of sabotage, after the ship was detained in the Baltic Sea Navibulgar CEO Alexander Kalchev said in a statement it was possible that the Vezhen ship had caused a cable to break but dismissed any possibility of sabotage or any other ...

Jan 26, 2025 · Sweden has opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.

Jan 27, 2025 · The Swedish authorities on Monday boarded a ship in connection with what they described as “gross sabotage” after an undersea communications cable in the Baltic Sea was damaged a day earlier.

Jan 27, 2025 · Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage. An inquiry has been launched involving Sweden's police, military and coast guard. Images shared by Swedish media showed that the ship ...