Helsinki — The captain and two senior officers of a ship believed to belong to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet have been charged with sabotage for cutting five Baltic Sea cables in December, Finnish prosecutors said Monday.

The crew members of the Cook Islands-registered oil tanker Eagle S were alleged to have dragged the ship’s anchor on the seabed for around 90 kilometres, damaging five undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland.

They have been charged with “aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with communications,” the office of Finland’s Deputy Prosecutor General said in a statement.

The office did not disclose the nationalities of the accused, but Deputy Prosecutor General Jukka Rappe told AFP many of the crew had been Indian and Georgian nationals.

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