Vessel detained under suspicion over Baltic Sea oil spill is on EU sanctions list
The Swedish Coast Guard has decided to launch a probe into a ship suspected of causing an oil spill in the Baltic Sea, east of Gotland, ordering the vessel to anchor in Swedish territorial waters.
A prosecutor is leading a preliminary probe into suspected environmental crimes, after the Swedish Coast Guard seized a ship to facilitate the investigation into its involvement in a mineral oil spill east of Gotland, which its surveillance aircraft detected.
The Flora 1 oil tanker was identified early on as being of interest to the investigation into the spill, which was over 12 kilometers long at the time. The vessel is now anchoring south of Ystad. The operation is being conducted in cooperation with the Swedish Police.
The Swedish Coast Guard has confirmed that the ship, which was en route from a port in the Gulf of Finland with a stated destination of Santos
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