The warrant is said to have been issued already in June at the request of the German federal prosecutor's office, according to an investigation by several German media outlets.
The prosecutor's office is said to have identified three individuals who are formally suspected. All three are Ukrainian citizens.
The trio is believed to be part of a crew of five people who set out on the Baltic Sea with the sailboat "Andromeda" on September 6, which German investigators had previously linked to the sabotage, writes Expressen.
The wanted person was able to be traced to the car he was traveling in, which was caught by a speed camera near the harbor where the "Andromeda" was moored shortly before the sabotage.
The wanted man lives in Poland, but has now disappeared. Germany has requested legal assistance from Poland and issued a European arrest warrant, but so far Poland has not acted on the request. The two other suspects run a diving company, which the wanted person is also believed to have ties to.
It was at the end of September 2022 that four leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany along the Baltic Sea floor, were discovered. Seismic measurements showed that explosions had occurred at sea before the leaks were found, and later the Swedish prosecutor confirmed that the pipelines had been subjected to deliberate explosions.
The investigation into the explosions has been dropped in both Sweden and Denmark, but the German investigation is still ongoing.
