Finnish court convicts a Russian captain and another crew member of damaging Baltic undersea cables

Summary

A Finnish court has convicted the captain and another crew member of a cargo ship of damaging undersea telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea last year, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported on Thursday 5 November, headlining that a Russian captain is among the two crew found guilty. The court convicted the captain and boatswain of aggravated criminal damage in relation to an incident last year in the Gulf of Finland, The NY Times reported, headlining that Finland sends the two men to prison. The Helsinki District Court found the two guilty of aggravated sabotage and gave them prison sentences, three years and six months for the captain and two years and 10 months for the boatswain, the LA Times reported, adding that the national broadcaster Yle reported that the captain is Russian and the boatswain Azerbaijani.

Latest: A Finnish court convicted the captain and another crew member of a cargo ship of damaging undersea telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea last year, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported, the LA Times writing that the Helsinki District Court found the two guilty of aggravated sabotage and sentenced the captain to three years and six months and the boatswain to two years and 10 months, where The NY Times writes of aggravated criminal damage.

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