Norway detains ship and Russian crew suspected of damaging Sweden-Latvia cable
The Russian crew and Norway-owned shipping company are cooperating with the authorities, police say, days after Sweden detained another vessel
A Norway-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fibre optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway, police said pn Friday.
The Silver Dania was stopped on Thursday evening and brought into the port of Tromsø in northern Norway on Friday morning by a Norwegian coastguard vessel, Norwegian police said in a statement.
They said that followed a request from Latvian authorities and a ruling by a Norwegian court.
Police said there was suspicion that the ship, which was sailing between the Russian ports of St Petersburg and Murmansk, was involved in serious damage to the cable in the Baltic Sea.
They did not elaborate, but said they were searching the ship and conducting interviews.
Damage to the data transmission cable running from Ventspils, Latvia, to Gotland was detected on Sunday.
