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Finland jails Russian cargo ship captain over Baltic Sea cable sabotage

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM · 1 min read
Finland jails Russian cargo ship captain over Baltic Sea cable sabotage — Tokyo Business news

A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea ‌telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year. Finland on December 31 seized the vessel in the Gulf of Finland while it was en route from Russia to Israel, on suspicion that it had damaged cables running from Helsinki to Estonia. The Helsinki District Court sentenced the captain to three years and six ⁠months in prison and...

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