HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish police stated on Tuesday they’d retrieved a big anchor from the seabed close to the placement the place a Baltic Sea gasoline pipeline ruptured earlier this month, and have been investigating whether or not it belonged to a Chinese language container vessel.
Police have beforehand stated harm to the Balticconnector subsea gasoline pipeline and two Baltic Sea telecoms cables was trigger by exterior mechanical power and have been investigating whether or not this was a deliberate sabotage or attributable to accident.
Finland’s Nationwide Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Friday stated they have been focusing their probe on the Chinese language NewNew Polar Bear container vessel which had travelled above the pipeline and the cables on the time of the harm.
The NBI on Tuesday stated they’d established that the NewNew Polar Bear was in truth lacking certainly one of its entrance anchors, and stated they’d tried unsuccessfully to contact the ship to ask whether or not this was the one retrieved within the Gulf of Finland.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, enhancing by Terje Solsvik)