No evidence found that the Chinese ship had intentionally damaged two cables in the Baltic Sea / day

It was found that the bulk ship « Yi Peng 3 » had been dragged anchor anchor on the southeast coast of Sweden in November and about 330 kilometers, breaking two telecommunications cables, one of which connects Germany and Finland and the other to Lithuania and Sweden.

However, the Board acknowledged that the final conclusion could not be made that the Chinese ship had deliberately broken the cables.

« The incident has two alternative scenarios, one of which is that the ship deliberately lowered the anchor to harm the seabed infrastructure, » the management report said.

« The argument against this alternative is a deliberate risk of a ship related to the anchor lowering as the ship is moving quickly. There is a high risk that the ship and crew members serving anchor may cause serious damage during lowering, » said the Office

« The other alternative is that the anchor was released because it was poorly secured or not at all, » the report said.

However, the fact that the ship was not damaged, and how long the anchor was pulled on the bottom of the sea, « to some extent speaks against this scenario, » the report said.

The Board noted that only more than a month after the incident, its representatives were allowed to view the « Yi Peng 3 » anchor and interview the crew, but no access to any electronic data was not granted.

The report expressed in the report « does not prevent the Swedish prosecutor’s office from conducting an initial investigation into a suspicion of crime, » the Board added.

The owner of « Yi Peng 3 » is the Chinese company Ningbo Yipeng Shipping Co., the ship has a Chinese flag.

Information on Helsinki and Rostock in Germany’s C-Lion 1 damage was received on November 18 after the previous day reported damage to the Sweden and Lithuania cable cable « Arelion ». Both cable damage sites are in the exclusive economic zone of Sweden.

Politicians and experts admit that cases of underwater infrastructure damage in the Baltic Sea are explained by Russia’s hybrid warfare.