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An accountant and a former co-owner at Nova Scotia home-heating firm Maritime Fuels made misrepresentations related to its financial statements, according to new claims made in a lawsuit involving the company, which collapsed into bankruptcy last month.

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.