MV Kanton arrested in Kherson port

17:25, 25.03.2015 1 min read

MV Kanton (registered in Tuvalu) has been arrested in Kherson seaport for docking in the ports of annexed Crimea.

"Investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) department on representing the interests of citizens or the state in court and fighting crime and corruption in the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimean peninsula, are investigating the facts of the vessel's violating the order [banning vessels from] entering Crimean ports," reads the report issued by the PGO.

According to Deputy Prosecutor General and Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios, during the investigation it was found out that a vessel registered to Tuvalu illegally docked in the closed port of Sevastopol in July 2014, and in March 2015 it docked in Kherson seaport for loading.

The vessel was subsequently notified in a letter that it was under suspicion of breaking the law, and a request for international legal assistance was sent to the relevant authorities in Tuvalu.