A Bulgarian shipping company denies its vessel sabotaged a Baltic Sea cable

A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland. In a statement, Navibulgar CEO Alexander Kalchev said it was possible that the Vezhen ship had caused a cable to break but dismissed any possibility of sabotage or any other action on the part of the crew. Kalchev’s statement followed the announcement that Swedish prosecutors had launched а preliminary investigation on suspicion of sabotage, after the ship was detained in the Baltic Sea.