Well, the profits were enough to make a smuggler millionaire many times over. Dealing with the blood-thirsty rebel leader required a trip into the heart of darkness.

-I have to go with him to C* in Sierra Leone. That day when he told me that, I had goose bumps. 

The huge profits made in the Antwerp would have to be earned in the bloodstained streets and villages in Sierra Leone.

-For me, it's part of the business.

He would be loaded with cash on the way in, and diamonds on the way out. Traveling would be extremely risky.

-If it's by foot, by bus, by train, by air, by missile, I'll do everything to reach them.

And the untold suffering of violence was a vast supply of rough diamonds, to satisfy buyers who didn't know or didn't care where they came from.

Although the Antwerp diamond scout had diamond smugglers in their sights, they were also dealing with the world's biggest diamond robbery.

-It was something that no one could imagine another such thing could happen.

Robbers breached the high security valve without explosives, an indicator that may have been an inside job.

-There is a very high security area. You have police presence day and night.

The v* of bypass stated the art of alarms and surveillance. Detectives knew they were missing something. The investigators found simple locked boxes on the same floors as the volt. Its must key was missing.