A mysterious package of legal documents, including a Venezuelan court order authorising the seizure of assets of the 1971 International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Fund was found outside the organisations’ central London office.

Whether this was someone’s bizarre idea of an appropriate way to serve legal documents remains to be seen but it is the latest curious development over an alleged spill by Ultrapetrol’s 57,000-dwt Plate Princess (built 1979).

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