According to Reuters, Norwegian police arrested a country’s ship at the request of Latvia because of suspicion of damaging the fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea connecting Latvia and Sweden.
The Vezhen ship was suspected of being related to the Baltic fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was arrested and anchored off the Port of Karlskrona (Sweden) on January 27. On January 30, another ship was arrested by Norway
The ship was captured and hanged with the Norwegian flag named Silver Dania but had a crew. Silver Dania is moving from St. Petersburg (Russia) in the Baltic Sea to Murmansk (Russia) in the Arctic region was arrested on the evening of January 30 off Tromso, northern Norway.
“The ship was suspected of causing serious damage to an optical cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden. The police were on the deck to search, interrogate and collect clues,” Norway Police The notice and said the crew and ship owners all cooperated with the police.
On January 26, Sweden and Latvia announced a fiber optic cable owned by the Latvia State Radio and Television (LVRTC) connecting Ventspils (Latvia) and Gotland Island (Sweden).

Swedish Weekly Weeks KBV 033 (Right) and Vezhen offshore Karlskrona City (Sweden) on January 27
AFP quoted the ship owner saying “the ship did nothing wrong”. “We moved near Gotland but we did not anchor. We did nothing wrong. Norwegian officials took us into the port to clarify everything,” said Tormod Fossmark, owner of Silver Sea Shipping Company , the owner of the Silver Dania, told AFP.
Earlier, the Swedish Week caught a Bulgaria called Vezhen (hanging the Malta flag) on January 26 because the suspicion was related to the cable failure. Swedish prosecutors also opened an investigation of the property sabotage case for this ship.
The countries around the Baltic Sea have recently increased security after underground cable breaks due to sabotage. NATO members recently increased in the area with warships, aircraft and unmanned equipment.