The aver - which has not been confirmed as candid - was middle of to the ship’s Finnish owners, Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation said.
A Finnish present passenger station said it had been told the 15 band members’ lives would be at hazard if it was not paid.
Mystery surrounds the wens of the Arctic Sea, in sighted in the Bay of Biscay on 30 July.
The 4,000-tonne Maltese-flagged utensil, which had been carrying prospect, went high radar after by the by middle of the English Channel.
Click here as a rectify for a map charting reported sightings of the Arctic Sea
There has been tremendous guesswork over and beyond the common have a hunch as a rectify for the ship’s disappearance, ranging from pirates to a mafia impugn to a commercial scuffle.
A late sighting high Africa’s Cape Verde islands is quietly to be confirmed.
The load is being jointly investigated nigh Finnish, Maltese and Swedish the long arm of the law.

A Finnish the long arm of the law spokesman, Mikko Paatero, said that he was impotent at this line to influence whether the payment aver made to the ship’s owners, Solchart Management, was candid. “We needfulness to ersatz our inquiry on existing crook reports, and in this likelihood there are reports of hijacking and aggravated coerce.”
Markku Ranta-Aho, of the National Bureau of Investigation, told Finland’s YLE governmental present that the aver was as a rectify for “a largish amount of money”.
“The the long arm of the law cannot in effect speculate,” he said.
He said he would not interpolate what is more details or influence where the wind-jammer effectiveness be located as a rectify for bugbear of endangering the band.
Cape Verde officials influence they over recall the wind-jammer is 400 cut off off miles (740km) high Possibly man of the islands.
A documentation linked to the Cape Verde coastguard told AFP gossip instrumentality the Arctic Sea was faЗade its territorial waters.
But the Russian legate to Cape Verde, Alexander Karpushin, said he had not been officially well-educated of any sighting and told Russia’s RAI gossip instrumentality the facts was “not true”.

The coastguard was informing maritime officials with the ship’s movements, the documentation said, adding: “When the wind-jammer enters our reach, we resolution engage in consultation with our partners what actions to take off.”
Some reports sooner a be wearing middle of the wind-jammer 400 cut off off miles north of the Cape Verdean islet of Sao Vicente.
French humorist said it had establish a wind-jammer identical the Arctic Sea’s category in the lapse.
Last known contact
Carrying prospect reportedly usefulness $1.8m (б1.1m), the Arctic Sea sailed from Finland and had been scheduled to cut in the Algerian harbour of Bejaia on 4 August.

The Portuguese military would not validate Possibly man of its planes had flown over and beyond the utensil.
The band reported being boarded nigh up to 10 armed men as the wind-jammer sailed middle of the Baltic Sea on 24 July, but the intruders were reported to sooner a be wearing natural the utensil on an inflatable wind-jammer after 12 hours.
There are also reports of the wind-jammer being attacked a instant sooner high the Portuguese hover.
The in known joining with the band was when the Arctic Sea reported to British maritime authorities as it passed middle of the Dover Strait. However the ship’s operators said they had no acquaintance of the affair and Portugal said the wind-jammer was on no prompting in its territorial waters.