{"id":1174,"date":"2026-03-09T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:07:34","slug":"sweden-seizure-of-cargo-vessel-for-false-flag-failings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/09\/sweden-seizure-of-cargo-vessel-for-false-flag-failings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; seizure of cargo vessel for false flag failings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sweden-baltic-sea-caffa-stateless-vessel-95028e736d1dc93b1587ed49d18e2a2a\">Saturday Swedish authorities<\/a> took control of the cargo vessel, <em>Caffa<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/polisen.se\/aktuellt\/nyheter\/nationell\/2026\/mars\/cargo-ship-boarded-in-the-baltic-sea\/\">Video of the seizure<\/a> has been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is being reported that the authorities suspect that the vessel, carrying a cargo of grain, may have been sailing under a false Guinean flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian national crew member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/tog-kontroll-over-misstankt-fartyg-sa-gick-insatsen-till\">has been arrested<\/a> on suspicion of using false documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday Swedish authorities took control of the cargo vessel, Caffa. Video of the seizure has been released. It is being reported that the authorities suspect that the vessel, carrying a cargo of grain, may have been sailing under a false Guinean flag. A Russian national crew member has been arrested on suspicion of using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/09\/sweden-seizure-of-cargo-vessel-for-false-flag-failings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; seizure of cargo vessel for false flag failings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,70],"tags":[18,87,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}