Finland jails captain and crew member over Baltic cable sabotage

A Finnish court has sentenced the captain and a crew member of the general cargo ship Fitburg to prison for deliberately damaging two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland on New Year’s Eve last year. Helsinki District Court handed Russian captain Andrei Maksimenko a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence, while Azerbaijani bosun Vusal Majidov received a two-year sentence.