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Finland police continue gas pipeline rupture probe
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Posted on May 9, 2025
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Posted on May 9, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Finnish police continue to investigate a Baltic Sea gas pipeline rupture, with cooperation from China regarding a Hong Kong-flagged vessel involved.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish police said on Friday that a probe into the rupture in 2023 of a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea is still ongoing and that cooperation with China has continued over the damage believed to have been caused by a Hong Kong-flagged vessel.
The South China Morning Post reported on Thursday that the captain of the NewNew Polar Bear container ship had been remanded in custody in Hong Kong on suspicion of the ship severing the pipeline.
The Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Any measures taken by the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities in connection with the investigation are matters that will be communicated by the competent authorities themselves," Finland's National Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones.
(Reporting by Anne Kauranen and Anna Ringstrom, editing by Terje Solsvik)
The main topic is the investigation of a gas pipeline rupture in the Baltic Sea involving a Hong Kong-flagged vessel.
The captain of the involved vessel has been detained, and cooperation with Chinese authorities is ongoing.
The region is on high alert due to recent outages of power cables, telecom links, and gas pipelines since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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