{"id":1197,"date":"2026-04-06T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:15:17","slug":"sweden-sanctioned-and-suspected-of-leaking-tanker-seized-and-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/06\/sweden-sanctioned-and-suspected-of-leaking-tanker-seized-and-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; sanctioned (and suspected of leaking) tanker seized (and released)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday 3 April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kustbevakningen.se\/en\/more-news\/sanctioned-ship-suspected-of-causing-oil-spill-in-baltic-sea\/\">the Swedish Coast Guard<\/a> boarded and seized control of the sanctioned &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; tanker the <em>Flora 1<\/em>. The vessel is suspected of having caused a 12 km (8 mile) oil spill in the Baltic Sea near the island of Gotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessel was then anchored off Ystad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coast Guard&#8217;s press release states that the vessel&#8217;s flag status is uncertain, and states that &#8220;this is the first time we have been able to trace a discharge to a vessel subject to sanctions, and which may be suspected of environmental crimes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/09\/round-up-of-sanctions-related-european-vessel-seizures\/\"> updated our vessel seizure tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/04\/05\/sweden-sanctioned-oil-tanker-released\/e769b60e-30df-11f1-b85b-2cd751275c1d_story.html\">has since been released<\/a>, with the Coast Guard citing a lack of evidence linking the vessel to the oil spill, and that the Coast Guard had been able to confirm the flag status of the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 3 April, the Swedish Coast Guard boarded and seized control of the sanctioned &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; tanker the Flora 1. The vessel is suspected of having caused a 12 km (8 mile) oil spill in the Baltic Sea near the island of Gotland. The vessel was then anchored off Ystad. The Coast Guard&#8217;s press &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/06\/sweden-sanctioned-and-suspected-of-leaking-tanker-seized-and-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; sanctioned (and suspected of leaking) tanker seized (and released)&#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":[104,2,70],"tags":[18,87,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","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=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}