Stockholm/Helsinki - Pirates seized a freighter in the Baltic Sea off Sweden, Swedish and Finnish media said Friday. The attack against the Malta-registered freighter Arctic, which was carried a cargo of logs, took place last week and ended after 12 hours.
Eight masked men boarded the ship and searched its hold, claiming to be drug police.
The 15 Russian crew members were imprisoned and some of them beaten. The shipping company reported the incident only to the Russian embassy in Helsinki, which passed on the information to Scandinavian authorities with a delay of several days.
Swedish police confirmed the incident, but said it had no further information circumstances and motives behind the attack.
