STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Friday arrested the Russian captain of a “shadow fleet” tanker seized by the coast guard on suspicion of forging documents and violating the maritime code, a prosecutor said. The coast guard boarded the 228-meter (748-foot) tanker Sea Owl I in Sweden’s territorial waters off the southern town of Trelleborg late Thursday, less than a week after seizing another false-flagged cargo vessel in the same area. The Sea Owl I was flying a Comoran flag, which the coast guard believed was phoney.
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