This is going to be an interesting convoluted story. According to EagleSpeak.. The attackers took captain Boris Tersintsev and chief engineering officer Igor Shumik hostage and left the ship.
Shumik was among the 15 crew members on the Arctic Sea cargo ship, which disappeared for more than three weeks last summer while carrying a $2 million shipment of timber from Finland to Algeria.
Most of you will remember the remarkable saga of the MV Arctic Sea. You might also note a couple of 8 suspected "pirates" ended up in a Russian prison.