A Swedish prosecutor has requested the detention of the Russian captain of the cargo ship Caffa on suspicion of using false documents.
Senior Prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg submitted the request to Ystad District Court on Tuesday, according to a report on Tuesday by Dagens Nyheter.
The ship was boarded by the Coast Guard in the Baltic Sea off Trelleborg, in southern Sweden, on March 6.
“The man is suspected of having presented and referred to several suspected false maritime certificates when the Coast Guard searched the ship,” the prosecutor previously said in a press release.
The captain, a Russian citizen, was arrested Saturday. The crew is predominantly Russian, and information found on the ship suggests it was bound for St. Petersburg. Swedish authorities believe the ship appears on a Ukrainian sanctions list for its alleged role in transporting stolen Ukrainian grain.
Following the inspection, the Swedish Transport Agency issued an international ban on the vessel’s use Sunday, prohibiting it from leaving anchorage until a number of deficiencies are addressed.