{"id":1218,"date":"2026-05-05T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:59:16","slug":"sweden-chinese-captain-of-syrian-flagged-ship-the-jin-hui-arrested-and-ship-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/05\/sweden-chinese-captain-of-syrian-flagged-ship-the-jin-hui-arrested-and-ship-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; Chinese captain of Syrian-flagged ship the Jin Hui arrested and ship detained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aklagare.se\/for-media\/pressmeddelanden\/2026\/maj\/befalhavare-pa-fartyg-utanfor-trelleborg-anhallen\/\">Sweden&#8217;s Prosecutors announced<\/a> the arrest of a Chinese national who was the captain of the Syrian-flagged vessel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/world\/2026\/05\/04\/sweden-arrests-chinese-captain-of-suspected-russia-linked-vessel#goog_rewarded\">suspected of belonging<\/a> to the Russian shadow fleet, the Jin Hui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The particular offences forming the basis for the captain&#8217;s arrest are the use of false documents and suspected violations of the Maritime Act in relation to seaworthiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel is reported to have been in Swedish territorial waters at the time it was detained and is now anchored off Trelleborg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Sweden&#8217;s Prosecutors announced the arrest of a Chinese national who was the captain of the Syrian-flagged vessel suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet, the Jin Hui. The particular offences forming the basis for the captain&#8217;s arrest are the use of false documents and suspected violations of the Maritime Act in relation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/05\/sweden-chinese-captain-of-syrian-flagged-ship-the-jin-hui-arrested-and-ship-detained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; Chinese captain of Syrian-flagged ship the Jin Hui arrested and ship detained&#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-1218","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\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}