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Jul 19

Corruption has cost Zimbabwe nearly $20bn in "disappeared" rough diamonds


Corruption in Zimbabwe has cost the country at least $20bn in "disappeared" rough diamonds, according to veteran economist and former member of parliament Eddie Cross.


He accuses the late Robert Mugabe, who served as prime minister from 1980 to 1987, of personally helping himself to $1.3bn of diamonds.



"When I was in parliament in 2012, I raised the wholesale theft of diamonds from the newly discovered Marange diamond fields," he says."These covered nearly 100,000 hectares and in that year I estimated that we produced more carats than Botswana."




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