A Finnish court on Thursday convicted the Russian captain and a senior crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for damaging two undersea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year.
The Helsinki District Court found the two defendants guilty of “aggravated criminal damage.”
It said in a statement that they had intentionally dragged the ship’s anchor along the seabed for around 130 kilometers (81 miles).
The captain was sentenced to three and a half years in jail, while the crew member, an Azerbaijani citizen, was sentenced to two years and 10 months.
They were also ordered to jointly pay around €1.9 million ($2.1 million) in damages, the Reuters news agency reported, with the captain to pay about €85,000 more.
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So, who gave them orders?
Didn’t Russia adopt a new law where they mentioned this exact scenario? Something about military means on foreign soil to protect russians.
