The representative of the State media of Zimbabwe, which is said to be representative of President Robert Mugabe, said that the latter had lied about the alleged theft of diamonds worth $ 15 billion from Marange (Marange), to achieve the consolidation of mining companies.
Early last year, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) was created to allegedly prevent leakage from diamond revenues abroad.
Former Diamond miners were pushed out of the concession after the majority of them refused to be a part of the combined company.
Journalist Zimbabwean Herald Nathaniel Manheru newspaper (Nathaniel Manheru), the name of which, presumably, says a spokesman for Zimbabwe's President George Sharamba (George Charamba), argued that, according to Mugabe and others responsible for the president's information, a massive leak of income from diamond sales was fiction.
As Manheru claims Mugabe laughed when he was asked to confirm the suspected diamond revenues of $ 15 billion.
The president asked the reporter, on how much last year's diamonds were sold in the world, and received the answer that this figure is about $ 14 billion.
"This figure ($ 15 billion), which I just mentioned, that it drives people into a stupor - said Mugabe -. I wanted to draw attention to the need to control the country's diamond resources to ensure full accountability of their operation, and I reached the national Watch yo Ania, I wanted to achieve. "
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