Overview
This dossier contains confidential records for Captain Harun Saleh.
Material is provisional, cross-referenced from recovered files, protected records, and field notes.
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Maritime Evidence Dossier
Captain Harun Saleh
Subject: Captain Harun Saleh
FORMAL SAFETY INTERVIEW RECORD
SUBJECT: Captain Harun Saleh
CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // SAFETY INVESTIGATION
REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/MARINE/2035/CTC076
Document control
CASE REFERENCE: COT/MARINE/2035/CTC076
SUBJECT: Captain Harun Saleh
CENTRAL RECORD: COT6964A297AD49B
RANK / APPOINTMENT: Captain
ORGANISATION: Commercial shipping
VESSEL / POSTING: MV Freya Maris
DATE OF BIRTH: 1976-09-02
PLACE / NATIONALITY: Istanbul, Marmara, Turkish
INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder
LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld
DATE: 19 September 2035
LEAD AUTHORITY: Marine Accident Investigation Branch
RECORDING MEDIA: Two sealed digital masters and one independent evidential hash
DISTRIBUTION: Named recipients only. No automated onward distribution.
NOTE: Handling notice. This document contains operational, personal and evidential material. It may be read only by a person with both the required clearance and a recorded need to know. Extraction of images, transcript segments or metadata creates a new controlled copy.
Identity and visual evidence control
VISUAL ASSET STATUS: Passport image: attached; dossier image frames available: 2; surveillance frames available: 0; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.
Reason for interview or reconstruction
This record concerns the subject's knowledge of bridge, North Sea, identity, AIS; and associated decisions, communications and evidence handling. The scope of this record is confined to the matters set out above and to evidence formally introduced during the session.
Preliminary investigator note
The subject asked that every pause, qualification and refusal be retained in the written transcript. No request was made to remove material already placed on the record.
Recorded interview transcript
LEAD INSPECTOR: State your full name for the record.
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Captain Harun Saleh
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Yes. I also understand that a classification marking is a handling instruction, not proof of integrity.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Yes. I am proceeding under the conditions already stated.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: On the bridge, Captain Harun Saleh squinted through the salt-smeared glass. Associated persons: Unnamed female operative — Freya Maris Relevant systems or locations: bridge, North Sea, identity
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: That is the order as I remember it. The machinery and the later summary are separate questions. Unnamed female operative — Freya Maris can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: You are asking for certainty that did not exist on the deck. I can give you the decision and the reason for it. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Freya Maris – Captain’s Quarters Captain Saleh rubbed at his temple, trying to push away the beginnings of a headache. Associated persons: Unnamed female operative — Freya Maris Relevant systems or locations: AIS, bridge
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: That is the order as I remember it. The machinery and the later summary are separate questions. Check AIS against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: You are asking for certainty that did not exist on the deck. I can give you the decision and the reason for it. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Are you saying the official record is wrong?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I am saying the record should remain evidence, not become an alibi for the system that produced it.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Captain Saleh rubbed at his temple, trying to push away the beginnings of a headache. Relevant systems or locations: AIS, bridge
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: At the time I acted on what the bridge could physically verify, not on what a later system said I ought to have known. the person who held the contemporaneous log can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: At the time I acted on what the bridge could physically verify, not on what a later system said I ought to have known. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.
[Exhibit S-01 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
[Exhibit S-02 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
SURVEILLANCE EXHIBIT S-03 // NOT ATTACHED. The corrected WebP asset bundle does not contain a matching image for this original exhibit slot.
[Exhibit S-03 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: I have limited answers where disclosure would identify a living source or an untested route.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What is the single next action this investigation should take?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Return to the original physical record and identify every hand that altered its custody.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?
CAPTAIN HARUN SALEH: Yes. Do not improve the certainty of my answers in the written summary.
[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]
Confidential investigator assessment
The account is internally consistent on physical chronology but remains deliberately limited on attribution. No adverse inference should be drawn from refusal to expose a source through a distribution route the subject challenged at the start.
Actions and inconsistencies outstanding
- Obtain or compare the independent account of Unnamed female operative — Freya Maris; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
- Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with bridge, including audit history and physical custody.
- Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with AIS, including audit history and physical custody.
- Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with North Sea, including audit history and physical custody.
- Recover acquisition authority, original-resolution files and adjacent frames for every surveillance exhibit.
NOTE: Finding limit. Nothing in this record establishes guilt, operational direction or final causation unless expressly stated as a supported finding. A valid credential, image or system entry proves only what that item can independently support.
LEAD INSPECTOR — sealed electronic signature held separately
Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded
END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-076