Arctic Sea crew and suspected hijackers returned to Moscow

ELEVEN seafarers and the eight men suspected of hijacking Arctic Sea – the missing Russian general cargoship that sparked a frantic search of the Atlantic earlier this month – arrived in Moscow last week onboard three Russian air force planes. According to reports, the alleged hijackers were handcuffed to members of Russia’s security forces when they disembarked and have now been taken to a high-security prison.

Russian ambassador to Cape Verde Alexander Karpushin told the Itar-Tass news agency that four Russian seafarers, including the master, remained aboard the ship to undertake maintenance tasks.
The Kremlin line is that the suspects threatened to blow up the...

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