 Speculations say the vessel may have been under Russian control already in an early stage of the incident and rerouted intentionally to thinly populated Cape Verde, where the illegal payload could be secretly unloaded and be brought back to Russia with the local government's support.A November 2010 diplomatic cables leak by WikiLeaks revived the discussion for a period of time, when a senior Spanish prosecutor described "the strange case of the "Arctic Sea" ship in mid-2009 as 'a clear example' of arms trafficking.