A Nova Scotia home heating fuel company that filed for bankruptcy last week has accused an accounting firm of negligence, saying it was hit with a “crippling shortfall” of nearly $10 million after being led to believe it was making money.
Maritime Fuels Ltd. declared bankruptcy last week, leaving in the lurch an unknown number of customers who had prepaid for their winter home heating fuel.
Court documents filed in the bankruptcy case don’t reveal any details of the company’s financial situation, but records filed last month in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in a separate civil suit suggest Maritime Fuels faced significant pressures.
In the lawsuit, Maritime Fuels alleges the Dartmouth, N.S., firm Baker Tilly Nova Scotia Inc. reviewed and s…
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