Ransom Call Is Made for Missing Ship Finnish Owners Still in Dark Over Vessel After Receiving Cash Demand
Sunday Herald › August 18, 2009
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A RANSOM demand has been made for the lost merchant ship Arctic Sea, Finnish media said yesterday, but the whereabouts of the vessel were still unknown in a saga looking increasingly like the plot of a Tom Clancy thriller The demand - which has not been confirmed as genuine - was put to the ship's Finnish owners, according to Finland's National Bureau of Investigation.
The report was the latest fragment of information to surface about the missing ship and its 15-member Russian crew, which has been cloaked in mystery since the vessel was boarded by up to 12 armed men masquerading as anti-narcotics ofcers in high-speed inflatable boats bearing police markings near the Swedish islands of Oland and Gotland on July 24.See the full content of this document
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Ransom Call Is Made for Missing Ship Finnish Owners Still in Dark Over Vessel After Receiving Cash Demand
The Arctic Sea has since failed to deliver a $1.3 million cargo of timber to the Algerian port of Bejaia on August 4.
Twelve hours after the ship was boarded the intruders left the ship an...See the full content of this document
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