HELSINKI: Prosecutors in Finland called for two-and-a-half year prison sentences for the captain and two senior officers of a ship suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables in 2024, as their trial ended Friday.
The three crew members of the Cook Islands-registered oil tanker Eagle S are accused of dragging the ship’s anchor on the seabed for around 90 kilometers (56 miles), damaging five undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland on December 25, 2024.
The Eagle S is believed to belong to Russia’s shadow fleet.
The three men have been charged with “aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with communications.”
During the trial, prosecutors argued the trio neglected their duties intentionally, after leaving the Russian port of Ust-Luga on Christmas Day.
