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To this day, the gems¹ stolen in the world's greatest ever diamond heist is still on the c*, a staggering hundred-million-dollar mystery. They may be sold in the shadowy corners of the international market, slipping back into the illegitimate supply chain. Perhaps finding their way onto the delicate fingers of proud brides-to-be, who have no idea that the gems on their glittering engagement rings were stolen in one of the world's most infamous² robberies. Antwerp's diamond scouts³ couldn't find the diamonds, but they had found a trail of blood diamonds, leading back to Sierra Leone and Samulh Ossaily. Having survived his f* back to the war-wrecked state, he continued to buy blood diamonds from the safety of his hotel suite⁴ in the capital of neighboring Liberia. He brought more than 20 million dollars worth diamonds in just six months. Found by Antwerp diamond merchant D* N*, supporting vicious rebels who were killing⁵, mutilating, raping⁶, and terrorizing people in Sierra Leone. Curia will smuggle⁷ illicit⁸ diamonds back to Antwerp, and they were sold on the illegitimate market at huge profit. But Antwerp's diamond scouts arrested and interrogated⁹ six of his curia, suspecting that Samulh Ossaily and his accomplice¹⁰ D* N* were also dealing¹¹ in weapons to pay for their blood diamonds. When the diamond sumggler ventured back to Belgium in April, 2002, police were waiting for him at the arrival's port.

 

-Ossaily and N* were charged for money laundrying, second of all, of course, dealing and conflating diamonds. They were buying goods that were under b* at that time.

 

Another indictment¹² was for arms trading. As N* fled Belgium and returned to Lebanon, while Samulh Ossaily stayed to fight the weapon charge.

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