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00:00Under the dark of the night sky the Swedish Coast Guard climbed aboard the
00:04Wesen, a Maltese flagged ship owned by a Bulgarian company which was sailing in
00:10the Baltic Sea. They were there to seize the carrier on suspicion of aggravated
00:15sabotage after a large cable was damaged on Sunday between the Swedish island
00:21Gotland and Ventspils in Latvia. The underwater fiber-optic cable belongs to
00:26Latvia's state broadcaster. The country's Prime Minister said it was working with
00:31Sweden to find answers. So we are in contact with both NATO and the Baltic
00:37Sea countries and together we are cooperating in the investigation. The
00:40state police has initiated criminal proceedings after the fact because of
00:44course we are currently in a situation where the facts are still being
00:47clarified. The CEO of the Bulgarian company Navibolga denied sabotage. He
00:54said that the ship which was carrying fertilizer from a Russian port to South
00:57America encountered bad weather conditions over the weekend and that the
01:02crew had noticed one of its anchors had dropped in the sea and had possibly
01:06dragged along the floor. It is possible that the ship had caused that
01:13problem with the cable but in my opinion there is absolutely no way we're talking
01:18about an act of sabotage on behalf of our crew. The Latvian Navy was then
01:25deployed to the area and identified two other suspect vessels. For months damage
01:31to strategic infrastructure has been increasing in the Baltic Sea. At the end
01:36of December a power cable and four telecommunication cables were damaged.
01:40While there are still some gray areas surrounding the incidents, Moscow which
01:45is involved in oil trafficking and GPS jamming in the Baltic has drawn suspicion.