WHILE real-life diamond heists are as dramatic as robberies we see in the movies — from the raiding of vaults at the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium where US$127 million was stolen in 2003, to the US$107 million mugging at Harry Winston store in Paris, France, in 2008 — the looting of Marange diamonds in Zimbabwe has been as cinematic as any Hollywood blockbuster can get.
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After months of complex investigation into what happened and is still going on at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, the Zimbabwe Independent, with the support of the Investigative Journalism (IJ) Fund, is unearthing new details showing how the country was robbed of hundreds of millions and possibly billions through a web of deceit, under-invoicing, fake invoices, false declarations, manipulation of the sorting and valuation process, exchange of parcels and illicit financial flows across borders, as well as corruption and patronage.
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