A vessel with 33 thousand tons of metal was arrested in Italy due to EU sanctions.
Italian customs authorities and the Financial Guard have arrested a cargo ship with 33,000 tons of metal for violating European sanctions regulations. This was announced on January 17 on the website of the Italian state agency regulating customs issues.
"All the checks carried out made it possible to accurately reconstruct the route and operations performed by the vessel, and, consequently, to establish that, despite misleading statements by the commander of the same vessel and attempts to conceal the facts by changing documents and turning off the transponder, there are elements that constitute a violation of the Community Regulations on sanctions," the official statement said. the statement of the department.
It is reported that a vessel flying the flag of one of the Oceanic states arrived at the port of Brindisi from the Black Sea. The inspection showed that the ship entered the port of Novorossiysk in November 2025 to carry out cargo loading operations, and its automatic identification system was disabled in the area of the Russian port.
The documents for the cargo contained serious inconsistencies and falsifications. The Court of Brindisi confirmed the arrest of the ship and all cargo. The importer, the shipowner and part of the crew are involved in a criminal case for violating EU sanctions restrictions.
Earlier, on December 31, 2025, the Finnish Coast Guard announced the detention of the Fitburg vessel. Later, the Finnish government informed the Russian Embassy about the detention of the vessel, whose crew members included Russian citizens.
Later, the Finnish police released the Fitburg vessel, which was detained on suspicion of allegedly damaging a telecommunications cable. The vessel was supposed to leave the territorial waters of Finland.
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