Parliamentary body to discuss Estlink 2 damage

The parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to hold an exceptional meeting on Friday to discuss the Estlink 2 submarine cable damage, said the parliament in a press release on Thursday.

The meeting has been called following the developments of the investigation into cable ruptures that took place in the Gulf of Finland on 25 December.

Earlier on December 31, seven staff members of tanker Eagle S whose status in the criminal investigation is that of a suspect have been subjected to a travel ban.

Police on December 28, transferred the Eagle S tanker, the suspect of Estlink 2 submarine cable damage from the Gulf of Finland to the Svartbeck inner anchorage near Porvoo.

Finnish authorities suspected the Eagle S, a tanker registered in the Cook Islands for its involvement in the rupture of the Estlink 2 submarine power transmission cable between Finland and Estonia on December 25.

The electricity transmission cable has been cut in the sea area in Finland's exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Finland, about 55 km south of Loviisa.