The Swedish Coast Guard boarded and took control of a stateless ship in its territorial waters of the Baltic Sea on Friday.
The Coast Guard seized the vessel off the shores of the southern Swedish town of Trelleborg.
The vessel called Caffa was sailing under a Guinean flag, but the Swedish Coast Guard said that they regarded it as stateless based on national and international legislation, and the Swedish Police suspected it of sailing under a false flag.
Caffa is a 96 m long general cargo ship and is on Ukraine’s sanctions list, per Sweden’s minister for civil defence, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, who posted the same on X.
It is unclear who owns the ship, and there are suspicions that it is not insured. Per findings, the ship changed its flag from Russia to Guinea this summer.
The Coast Guard said that it had launched an investigation into the suspected violation of international law regarding seaworthiness.
The Coast Guard personnel are onboard the vessel to conduct an investigation and gather
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