00:00Helsinki police are investigating damage done on Wednesday to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland.
00:12Finnish authorities seized and inspected the vessel suspected of causing the damage, the Bouda guard said in a statement.
00:20As for the crimes suspected in this case, we are at the moment suspecting aggravated disruption of the telecommunication and also aggravated sabotage and attempted aggravated sabotage.
00:38The ship, which had its anchor lowered when found in Finland's exclusive economic zone, was sailing under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and had left from the Russian port of St. Petersburg, police said.
00:53According to marine traffic data, it was headed for Haifa in Israel.
00:58According to authorities, 14 crew members are currently being held for questioning and reported their nationalities as Russian, Georgian, Kazakh and Azerbaijani.
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