Finnish court throws out case against crew over Baltic cable breach

“The District Court has today issued a judgment dismissing the charge in the case...along with the claims for damages arising from the charge, as it was not possible to apply Finnish criminal law to the case,” the court said in a statement.

NATO forces in the region went on high alert following the December 25 incident, one of a string of cable and gas pipeline outages in the Baltic Sea since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

(Reporting by Elviira Luoma and Anne Kauranen; Editing by Essi Lehto, Terje Solsvik and Alex Richardson)