STOCKHOLM, March 10. /TASS/. Sweden's Coast Guard, in coordination with the police, detained the Caffa cargo ship sailing under the Guinean flag on March 7 off the coast of the southern town of Trelleborg, the Coast Guard reported in a press release.

Swedish authorities said the arrested captain of the ship is a Russian citizen. He is suspected of using forged maritime certificates.

TASS has compiled the main information available at this time.

- The Russian embassy in Sweden is in contact with the Swedish government regarding the detained Caffa ship with Russian crew members aboard, the diplomatic mission wrote on its Telegram channel.

- A Russian diplomat visited the arrested captain with Russian citizenship. He is being held in satisfactory conditions, the embassy told TASS.