The fees are the most recent growth in Finland’s investigation, which additionally led to the seizure of the Eagle S, prime suspect within the December 2024 incident that broken 4 submarine cables and disrupted one other within the Gulf of Finland.
The sabotage triggered calls for extra strong motion towards Moscow’s shadow fleet, an armada of growing old, typically uninsured tankers that sanctioned nations like Russia depend on to bypass worldwide penalties.
NATO has additionally mobilized forces to guard the seabed and demanding communications infrastructure amid a sample of comparable incidents within the Baltic Sea, including the severing of an web cable between Finland and Germany in November 2024, and another between Finland and Sweden in December 2024.
POLITICO has contacted the prosecutor’s workplace for remark.
