芬兰法院判俄籍船长入狱三年半：货船 Fitburg 拖锚约130公里切断两条海底电缆
赫尔辛基 — 路透社11月5日报道，芬兰赫尔辛基地方法院当天判处货船 Fitburg 号的俄籍船长 Andrei Maksimenko 入狱三年零六个月，同船的阿塞拜疆籍水手长 Vusal Majidov 入狱两年零十个月，罪名是加重破坏。法院认定，两人于2025年除夕故意让船锚与锚链在海底拖行约130公里，切断了连接芬兰赫尔辛基与爱沙尼亚塔林的两条海底电信电缆。
Fitburg 号悬挂圣文森特和格林纳丁斯旗，长132米，载着钢材从俄罗斯圣彼得堡驶往以色列海法，2025年12月31日在芬兰湾被芬兰当局扣押。调查显示，受损的锚与锚链拖过海床时，除切断属于 Elisa 与 Arelion Finland 的两条电缆外，还越过另外七条电信与电力电缆和一条天然气管道，构成进一步损坏的风险。检方另行提出的干扰电信指控，被法院以与破坏罪重复为由撤销。
法院判令两人共同赔偿约190万欧元，船长另付约8.5万欧元，并下令立即收押两人，此前两人一直被限制离境。船长的律师表示将提出上诉，水手长的律师称尚未决定。波罗的海海底电缆近年多次受损：另一艘油轮 Eagle S 号的船员被指在2024年12月损坏五条海底电缆，该案已另行处理。
（来源：路透社）
Finnish Court Jails Russian Captain for Three and a Half Years: Freighter Fitburg Dragged Its Anchor About 130 km, Severing Two Subsea Cables
HELSINKI — A Finnish court on November 5 jailed the Russian captain of the freighter Fitburg for three years and six months and an Azerbaijani crew member for two years and ten months for aggravated criminal damage over the severing of two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland, Reuters reported. The Helsinki District Court found that on New Year's Eve 2025 the two men acted intentionally as the ship dragged its anchor and anchor chain along the seabed for about 130 kilometres, cutting two cables linking Helsinki and Tallinn, Estonia.
The 132-metre, St Vincent and the Grenadines-flagged Fitburg was seized by Finnish authorities in the Gulf of Finland on December 31, 2025, while sailing from St Petersburg, Russia, to Haifa, Israel, carrying steel products. Investigators found that the damaged anchor and chain, besides severing two cables belonging to Elisa and Arelion Finland, also crossed seven other telecommunications and power cables and a gas pipeline, creating a risk of further damage. A separate prosecution charge of interfering with telecommunications was dropped by the court as duplicative of the damage conviction.
The court ordered the two men to jointly pay about 1.9 million euros in damages, with the captain to pay about 85,000 euros more, and ordered both taken into custody immediately, ending the travel bans under which they had remained in Finland. The captain's lawyer said he would appeal; the crew member's lawyer said no decision had been made. Subsea cables in the Baltic Sea have been damaged repeatedly in recent years: the crew of another tanker, the Eagle S, faced charges over damage to five undersea cables in December 2024 in a separate case.
(Source: Reuters)
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图片来源：图：货船 Fitburg 号（资料图）。Cavernia 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The freighter Fitburg (file photo). By Cavernia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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