TALLINN. April 24 (Interfax) - The Estonian parliamentary commission, which is investigating the possible smuggling of Russian weapons aboard the Estonia ferryboat, has lost certain documents, the Eesti Ekspress weekly said on Thursday.
The missing document is the transcript of meetings the commission had in Sweden in 2006. Half of the over-1,000-page document was classified.
The commission has also lost its most important document, testimonies of the former head of the Swedish military intelligence department MUST Maj. Gen. Erik Rossander, the weekly said.
According to the weekly, Rossander's subordinates allegedly transported Russian weapons on September 14 and 20, 1994, several days before the last voyage of the ferryboat.
The Estonia sank in the small hours of September 28, 1994, and the wreck killed 852 people. According to the official report of the intergovernmental commission of Estonia, Finland and Sweden, the ferryboat sank because of the faulty design. It could not withstand the gale, the commission said.
The Swedish government formed a special commission in December 2004 to investigate media reports, which claimed that Swedish security services and customs allegedly made a secret deal not to examine vehicles carrying Russian military hardware aboard the Estonia.
The commission confirmed these facts happened on September 14 and 20, 1994. The commission report was classified for the period of 70 years.