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23 Aoû 2015

Auteur:
Danielle Max, IDEX Online (USA)

Belgium Branch of CAR Diamond Trading Firm Placed on UN Sanctions List

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Central African Republic (CAR) diamond trading firm Badica and its Belgium-based branch, Kardiam, have been placed on a UN sanctions list for giving support to armed militia groups on both sides of the ongoing conflict in the country... Some 6,634 carats of diamonds, worth $1.7 million, were seized from Kardiam in May 2014 by Belgian federal authorities.  According to...Bloomberg, Belgian authorities said the stones probably originated in CAR and were smuggled out via the Democratic Republic of Congo and then Dubai.  The Dubai Diamond Exchange said the diamonds came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a valid certificate.

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