Arctic Sea: asking ransom?

The Finnish company that operates the vessel filed an official crime report with police in Finland who passed it on to Swedish police. Ransom demanded?
Finnish Radio
Finnish Police

Arctic Sea Transponder off the Ship?

A Russian maritime website claimed that the tracking system of the missing freighter Arctic Sea was broadcasting signals from the Bay of Biscay off France, although the vessel was reportedly seen off the west coast of Africa yesterday.

A posting on the Sovfrakht website said the signal appeared on a tracking service this morning, but added that it was unclear whether the automatic identifcation system equipment was still on board the ship.

Arctic Sea repainted and sold? A Phantom?

Consider the Asian model of piracy , in which ships are redocumented, repainted and sold under another identity. What if the target is not the cargo, or ransom, but the hull? Where is the now phantom ship? What about Western Sahara/Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)? Morocco reports that it is not in El Aaiun, a port which it 'occupies' but what about the 1,110 km coastline to the south?
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