Overview
- Police lifted the ship’s seizure after on‑board measures concluded, and the Border Guard monitored its departure from Finnish waters at about 11:00 a.m. local time on January 12.
- The National Bureau of Investigation is pursuing suspected aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage, and aggravated interference with telecommunications.
- A Helsinki court remanded one crew member in custody pending retrial, and some other sailors remain under travel bans, according to lead investigator Risto Lohi.
- Finnish Customs inspected the cargo and opened a sanctions probe after identifying steel products subject to Western restrictions.
- Authorities mapped an anchor drag trail over several tens of kilometers linked to damage to Elisa’s Finland–Estonia cable in Estonia’s exclusive economic zone, in cooperation with Estonian police.