There have been rumours that there was something strange about the loss of the 150,000-dwt Brillante Virtuoso (built 1992) since ship surveyor, Capt David Mockett, was murdered in the Yemen after allegedly finding no bullet holes or rocket propelled grenade damage that confirmed there had been a pirate attack.
But High Court judge Justice Flaux was clear that insurers had never alleged that the claim brought by the owners was deliberately exaggerated or fraudulent and if there were gaps in the owner’s disclosures they were no more than what inevitably happens when documentation cannot be found or may never existed in the first place.
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