The Public Prosecutor's Office received a request that the discontinued investigation from the 1990s into the sinking of Estonia be resumed as new circumstances have emerged.
The request referred to information in a high-profile television documentary.
The request came in November 2020.
Now the prosecutor announces that a decision is delayed.
“In order to get a good assessment basis, I will await the Accident Investigation Board's work and the results of planned dives.
Only then will I decide whether there are conditions to initiate a preliminary investigation or not ", says chamber prosecutor Karolina Wieslander in a written press release.
However, she can not state the schedule.
- At the moment, I can not assess how long it takes before I make a decision, she says.
Survivors should be heard
The Swedish Accident Investigation Board cooperates with Finland and the corresponding authority in Estonia in a preliminary assessment which "aims to consider whether the new circumstances give reason to revise the conclusions drawn in the 1997 report on the sinking of Estonia", writes the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The Swedes who survived the sinking will be heard by the Accident Investigation Board, the prosecutor states.