A Norwegian ship to Russia, Russia, that the authorities initially suspected of participation in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been released.
Norwegian police said late Friday that no conclusion had been made that would have linked the ship, Dania Silver, “to the law”.
“The Tromsø police district has now carried out a certain number of investigation measures and obtained what we consider as necessary, considering the request for Latvia. The investigation will continue, but we no longer see any reason for the ship to remain in Tromsø, “said Tromsø police lawyer Ronny Jørgensen late Friday.
The Dania money was arrested on Thursday evening and brought to the port of Tromsø in northern Norway on Friday morning by a ship of the Norwegian coastal guard for inspection. They said it followed a request from the Latvian authorities and a decision of a Norwegian court.
At the time, the police said that there was suspected that the ship, which was sailing between the Russian ports of St. Petersburg and Murmansk during its detention, had been involved in serious damage of cables discovered on weekends- Last end in the Baltic Sea.
The authorities are not developed, but said they were searches the ship and put interviews.
Tormod Fossmark, CEO of Silversea Company, who owns the ship, denied that the ship caused damage when he sailed in the cable area and said that the company cooperated with the authorities on what it considered as a “serious” affair.
“We have no involvement in this,” Fossmark told the Associated Press. “We have not had anchors or to do anything, which will be confirmed today” in the investigation, he said.
He stressed that the Ship’s Ship follow -up data shows no irregularity in his career.
Fossmark said he hoped that the ship, which was not cargo, could navigate later in the day.
Damage to the data transmission cables ranging from Ventspils, in Latvia, in Gotland were detected on Sunday. Later in the day, Swedish prosecutors announced that they had opened a preliminary investigation into the alleged sabotage and ordered the detention of a suspected ship to damage the cable, the Vezhen with Malta flag.
The Bulgarian owner of this ship said it was possible that the Vezhen accidentally caused the break of a cable, but rejected any possibility of sabotage or any other action from the crew.