The company said it offered “all sympathy and condolences” to thefamily of David Mockett, but added it considered the connection to be “totallywithout foundation.”
Thecompany was responding to evidence given last month at a UK inquest into 64-year-oldMockett’s death in 2011.
AUK police officer claimed that the car bomb killing in Yemen took place becausethe surveyor inspected the 150,000–dwt Brillante Virtuoso (built 1992) followinga pirate attack off Somalia that set it on fire.
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