Sweden rules out sabotage in Baltic Sea cable damage case
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

Sweden rules out sabotage in Baltic Sea cable damage, attributing it to weather and equipment issues. A suspected vessel was released.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Sweden has released a vessel suspected of causing damage to an undersea fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden on Jan. 26, the Nordic country's prosecution authority said on Monday, adding that it ruled out sabotage.
"The investigation now clearly shows that this was not a case of sabotage," the prosecution authority said in a statement.
"It has been established that a combination of weather conditions and shortcomings in equipment and seamanship contributed to the cable break," it added.
(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Louise Breusch Rasmussen and Terje Solsvik)
The prosecution authority stated that the investigation shows this was not a case of sabotage.
It was established that a combination of weather conditions and shortcomings in equipment and seamanship contributed to the cable break.
The damage to the undersea fibre optic cable occurred on January 26.
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