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Well, the profits were enough to make a smuggler² millionaire many times over. Dealing³ 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 risky⁴.

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

And the untold⁵ 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 scout⁶ 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 breached⁷ the high security valve without explosives, an indicator⁸ 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 investigators⁹ found simple locked boxes on the same floors as the volt¹⁰. Its must key was missing.

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