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MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors have filed charges with a Murmansk court against the captain of the Russian trawler Elektron, involved last year in a chase in Norwegian waters over alleged illegal fishing.
Valery Yarantsev is charged with violating fishing regulations and unauthorized detention of two Norwegian border guards on board, prosecutors said.
In mid-October, the Norwegian Coast Guard pursued the Elektron for five days across the Barents Sea for alleged violating Norwegian fishing regulations near the Spitsbergen archipelago. The trawler crew took two Norwegian border guards hostage on board the ship until it reached Russian territorial waters. Both were later freed unharmed.
Russian prosecutors opened a criminal case into the conduct of Yarantsev in the wake of the incident.
