Share: Colombo (News 1st); Attorney General Dappula De Livera forwarded a Marine Pollution claim for Rs. 3.423 Bn (19.022 Mn USD) to the lawyers of MT New Diamond ship Owners in respect of the Oil Spill caused in September 2020. This was confirmed to News 1st, by State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, the Coordinating Officer to the Attorney General on Friday (09). The MT New Diamond crude oil tanker was transporting 270,000 metric tons of crude oil from the port of Meena Al Ahmadi in Kuwait to the Port of Paradip in India when a fire broke out aboard in the eastern seas of Sri Lanka on 03rd September 2020 at around 0800 hrs.