MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today rejected as false allegations of some media that the abducted Russian ship "Arctic are" contained anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, allegedly intended for Iran.
Freighter with 15-member Russian crew on the way from Finland to Algeria, after the mysterious disappearance in late July, was found near the coast of Cape Verde, 16 August. According to the investigation, the ship's Othello eight citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Russia. "Arctic are" found and captured a Russian ship "Ladnij.
Russian media reported today writing the British newspaper "Sunday Times" that the truck carrying the S-300 systems to Iran and that he was allegedly intercepted by members of the Israeli Mossad services.
"All this is an absolute falsehood," said Lavrov in Moscow, told the Itar-Tass.
Head of Russian diplomacy said that "very soon Russia the ship carried out investigations, to which were invited to participate and representatives of the state under whose flag sailed (Malta).
"Everything will be transparent. I hope that will convince everyone that the rumors are, that you can call and absolutely unfounded," Lavrov said at a news conference.
Later, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor of Russia Vladimir Markin said that the investigators access to the detailed examination of cargo freighter "are Arctic and to date have not found anything other than timber, which is a declaration.
Markin said that the investigation group on the boat to do a few more days.
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