Final Instalment of Diamonds Returned to Zimbabwe Mining Companies
March 29, 15
(IDEX Online News) – The final installment of 500,000 carats of seized diamonds, with an estimated value close to $29 million, has finally been returned to Zimbabwe.
The goods, which totaled some $45 million, were part of a diamond tender of Marange goods seized in Antwerp last September.
Denying an attempt by a South African mining company to attach diamonds to an unrelated case against the State of Zimbabwe, a Belgian Court of First Instance ruled that the diamonds in question were not the property of the State, but the property of the Zimbabwean mining companies that produced them.