Estonian police have investigated the damage to Estonian telecom cables, while the owner of the Russian cable, state company Rostelecom, has said it won’t seek compensation. Early on, China’s foreign ministry promised both Finland and Estonia to assist with the investigations, while calling for an objective and fair probe.
Ian Chan, a prosecution lawyer for Hong Kong’s Marine Department that has regulatory oversight over the port city’s maritime industry shipping registry, told reporters that he had not made contact with Finnish or Estonian authorities regarding the case.
He noted, however, that Wan’s ship, when it sailed from Russia to China, had been missing an anchor, and it had failed to report daily to its shipping company, as is required under maritime regulations.
(Reporting by James Pomfret and Greg Torode in Hong Kong; Anne Kauranen in Helsinki; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree, Christopher Cushing and Kim Coghill)
