
The captain and a crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg were sentenced for damaging subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland.
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The vessel Fitburg was seized on December 31 while traveling from Russia to Israel following damage to cables connecting Helsinki and Estonia.
The court said the captain and a crew member acted intentionally when the ship dragged an anchor along the seabed for around 130km.
A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year.
Finland on December 31 seized the vessel in the Gulf of Finland while it was en route from Russia to Israel, on suspicion that it had damaged cables running from Helsinki to Estonia.
The Helsinki District Court sentenced the captain to three years and six months in prison and the crew member to two years and 10 months.

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